You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
E. O. WILSONThis is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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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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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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