Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
E. O. WILSONBecause the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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 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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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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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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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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