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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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