A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
E. O. WILSONWhen you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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