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- Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine. Bug
- Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive. Force
- The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. Atheism
- 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. Each
- By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. Achievement
- I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution. Believe
- 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. All
- Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart. Continues
- 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. Funeral
- Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong. Baffling
- The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as… Century
- To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong. Both
- True character arises from a deeper well than religion. Arise
- The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction… Conservation
- Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. Altruism
- It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships. Been
- All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments. Abrahamic
- I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it. Doubt
- There is no better high than discovery. Better
- America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost. America
- Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them. Ants
- For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization. Biological
- I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster. Adherence
- I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with… Ants
- Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake. Emerge
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