No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by g…

E. O. Wilson
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No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. ✨ E. O. Wilson (2014). Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, p.72, Vintage
Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
I want us to save the creation-not just care about it, but to save it. ✨ Religion & Ethics Newsweekly with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. November 17, 2006.
The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched.
Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for themselves first, then strain for gen … ▶

No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

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