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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. Wilson
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E. O. Wilson
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: June 10
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The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us.
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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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