Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
E. O. WILSONIdeas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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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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.
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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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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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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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