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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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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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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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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