We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
E. O. WILSONTrue character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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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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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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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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