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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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