Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
E. O. WILSONBecause the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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