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

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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals. "

" 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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" 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. "

" Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake. "

" 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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