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

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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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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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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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