Religious Quotes by E. O. Wilson

11 Religious quotes by E. O. Wilson

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E. O. Wilson often linked biology to belief systems. In these eleven lines he sketches a rational view of spirituality.

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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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The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.

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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

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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…

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I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible…

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I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and…

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Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience…

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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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I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to…

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People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a…

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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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