Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
E. O. WILSONIf 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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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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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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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