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I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
In my heart, I’m an Alabaman who went up north to work.
The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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.
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.