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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.

E. O. Wilson

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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Alive Ancestor Another Essential Humanity Intellectual Keep Large Purpose Sacred Sense
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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Always Back Carrer Mind New Point Reach Ready Something Write
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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All Among Country Winner Culture Darwinian Flourish Major None Religious Rival Struggle Tolerate Wage
In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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Altruism Colleague Kin Mathematician Origin Reigning Selection Theory Time
There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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Any Create Green Next Other Revolution Seem Way
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.
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Attempt Better Bring Century Come Entirely Environment Face Humanity Key Obvious Problem Quality Wrecking
Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Environment Living Really Sustain Us
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Across Belief Change Come Demonstrate Even Fall Generation Hard Slowly
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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Care Conquest Consequence Loyalty Moses Nothing Other Planet Plenty Say Stay Tribal
Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Emerge Idea Imagine Own Part Real Sake World Study
Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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Aim Alone Behave Endure Failure High Honorably Prepare Time
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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Ant Creature Dead Depend Land Lead Remove
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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Combine Exceed Genre Likely Planet Variety Virus
This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Descendant Folly Forgive Least Likely Our
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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Brain Constant Distrore Immediate Input Map Often Sensory World
If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Chaos Collapse Environment Insect Vanish

I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.

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