Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. WILSONPeople respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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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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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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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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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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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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