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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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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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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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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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 doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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