Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
E. O. WILSONAnts are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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I 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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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?
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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 is no better high than discovery.
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