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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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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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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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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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