When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
E. O. WILSONThe variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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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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