Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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There is no better high than discovery.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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