Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
From E. O. Wilson
To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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