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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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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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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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This 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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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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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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