Science and religion are the two most powerful for... -E. O. Wilson

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.

E. O. Wilson , Scientist
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E. O. Wilson, whose full name is Edward Osborne Wilson, is an American biologist, researcher, and author. He is considered one of the world's leading experts on ants and has made significant contributions to the study of biodiversity.

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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right inf...
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all....
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction....
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 dil...
The education of women is the best way to save the environment....
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false....
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential streng...
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A lot of people have questioned how yoga and their own spiritual beliefs can come together. Yoga actually pre-dates religion....
It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were br...
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, hel...
Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know....
So much of religion is exegesis. I would rather follow in the footprints of Christ than all of the dogma....
You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway....
The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, i...
As a child, the conversations that I liked to have with my friends - or with anyone, for that matter - were always about religion....
I have no message of hate. I do not attack any religion. I just preach Jesus....
To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy....