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.
E. O. WILSONBlind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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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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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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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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Competing 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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There is no better high than discovery.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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