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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.

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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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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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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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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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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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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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