Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
E. O. WILSONCompanies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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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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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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Theology 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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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