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" In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work. "

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" Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive. "

" It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are. "

" Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. "

" To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong. "

" The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined. "

" 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. "

" If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. "

" In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. "

" 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. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People respect nonfiction but they read novels. "

" I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster. "

" Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago. "

" Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans. "

" When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan. "

" Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking. "

" By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. "

" In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner. "

" I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. "

" 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. "

" What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species. "

" For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization. "