The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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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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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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