American - Scientist | June 10, 1929 -
I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
E. O. Wilson
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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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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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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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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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?
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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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