Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
E. O. WILSONTrue character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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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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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.
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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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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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