Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
E. O. WILSONThere doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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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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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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