There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
E. O. WILSONIt’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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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