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Humanity needs a vision of an expanding and unending future.
E. O. Wilson
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E. O. Wilson
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: June 10
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The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under the care of its parents... But to what extent does the wiring of the neurons, so undeniably encoded in the genes, preordain the directions that social development will follow?
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Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.
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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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These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly slower on foot than the four legged animals around them. They could have succeeded in their new way of life only by relying on tools and sophisticated cooperative behavior
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The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions medieval institutions and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.
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Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.
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One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.
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You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.
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