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" Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong. "

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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? "

" We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories. "

" Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input. "

" The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere. "

" I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect. "

" The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth. "

" 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. "

" The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period. "

" Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character. "

" If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months. "

" 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. "

" Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. "

" We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity. "

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

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

" Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them. "