#vol

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#ants #barrier #becoming #dominated #evolving

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#consequence #dogma #evolution #i #religious

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#because #belief #evolved #form #itself

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#beliefs #competing #essential #evolved #religions

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#baptist #believes #biological #different #evolutionary

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#biology #did #evolve #evolved #gods

What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#biology #each #efforts #enough #evolutionary

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution. ↗

— Harold Wilson

#redefining #revolution #scientific #socialism #terms

Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking. ↗

— Malcolm Wilson

#artists #asking #emotional #got #hear

There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it. I'm not involved in a church, but I understand that impulse to believe in something that's never going to betray you. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

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