In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
E. O. WILSONTheology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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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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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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It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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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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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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 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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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The 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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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