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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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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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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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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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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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