Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. WILSONWhat’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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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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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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