It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
E. O. WILSONPolitical ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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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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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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