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 dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
E. O. WilsonMost people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong. Their understanding is based on folk psychology, the grasp of human nature by common sense ยพ defined (by Einstein) as everything learned to the age of 18 ยพ shot through with misconceptions, and only slightly advanced over ideas employed by the Greek philosophers
E. O. WilsonThe history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.
E. O. WilsonThe 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.
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