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.
E. O. WILSONThere doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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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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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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