We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
E. O. WILSONCompeting is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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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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The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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