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.
E. O. WILSONThis is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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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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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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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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