We have stone age emotions, medieval institutions and god-like technol... — E. O. Wilson

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We have stone age emotions, medieval institutions and god-like technology.

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The evolutionary epic is probably the best myth we will ever have.

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My definition of a scientist is that you can complete the following sentence: ‘he or she has shown that…’,

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Wonderful theory, wrong species. (On Marxism, which he considered more suited to ants than to humans.)

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We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity in order to affirm human freedom and dignity.

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Genetic determinism... On its interpretation depends the entire relation between biology and the social sciences.

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God remains a viable hypothesis as the prime mover, however undefinable and untestable that conception may be.

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