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E. O. Wilson

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

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

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"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."
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"It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are."
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"By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified."
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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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"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."
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"Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals."
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"Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart."
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"Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science."
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"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."
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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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