In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
E. O. WILSONI tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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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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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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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