I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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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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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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