I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
E. O. WILSONPeople respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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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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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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