Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
E. O. WILSONIf 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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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