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

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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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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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.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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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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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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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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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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