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For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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This planet can be a paradise in the 22nd century.
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The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
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America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
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Cultural evolution is Lamarckian and very fast, whereas biological evolution is Darwinian and usually very slow.
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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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Biology has finally opened up to achieve a unifying embrace of all its disciplines. We're seeing the renaissance of what could be called scientific natural history, which makes available the groundwork - the foundation work - of what is actually on the Earth.
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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.
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Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.
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The borderline between normal and schizophrenic people is broad and nearly imperceptible.
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In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.
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I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.
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The three extreme kinds of schizophrenia are unmistakable: the haunted paranoid surrounded by his imaginary community of spies and assassins, the clownish, sometimes incontinent hebephrenic, and the frozen catatonic.
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In early history phobias might have provided the extra margin needed to insure survival...
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We can search among the unconscious, emotion-laden learning rules for the kind of behavior most directly influenced by genetic evolution.
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The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a bookkeeper.
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The most peaceable tribes of today were often ravagers of yesteryear and will probably again produce soldiers and murderers in the future.
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