Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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