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" I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it. "
E. O. Wilson
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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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" Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science. "
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" By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. "
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" If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. "
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" But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world. "
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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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" The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world. "
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" I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster. "
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" It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are. "
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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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" Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass. "
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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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" Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. "
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" Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years. "
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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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" 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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" There is no better high than discovery. "
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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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" 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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" It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere. "
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" Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. "
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" In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty. "
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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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" True character arises from a deeper well than religion. "
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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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" If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable. "
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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 ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth. "
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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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