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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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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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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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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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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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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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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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