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.
E. O. WILSONEvery 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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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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.
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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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