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" Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest. "
E. O. Wilson
Care
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Nothing
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" To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong. "
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" In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner. "
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" Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, 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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" I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it. "
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" Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false. "
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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. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us. "
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" America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost. "
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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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" We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. 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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" I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind. "
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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. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. "
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" True character arises from a deeper well than religion. "
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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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" Because the living environment is what really sustains us. "
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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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" 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. "
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" The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth. "
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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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" There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs. "
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" Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong. "
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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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" 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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" Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive. "
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" An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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