By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
E. O. WILSONThere is no better high than discovery.
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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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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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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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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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