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“Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.”
― The Future of Life
― The Future of Life
“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”
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“Still, if history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. Acceptance of the supernatural conveyed a great advantage throughout prehistory when the brain was evolving. Thus it is in sharp contrast to biology, which was developed as a product of the modern age and is not underwritten by genetic algorithms. The uncomfortable truth is that the two beliefs are not factually compatible. As a result those who hunger for both intellectual and religious truth will never acquire both in full measure.”
― Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
― Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
“Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species”
― The Ants
― The Ants
“True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen by the individual, strong enough to endure through trials of solitude and adversity. The principles are fitted together into what we call integrity, literally the integrated self, wherein personal decisions feel good and true. Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others.”
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