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.
E. O. WILSONTrue character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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 two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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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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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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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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