Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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