If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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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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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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