If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. WILSONI had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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