Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
E. O. WILSONAim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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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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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 history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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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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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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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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