Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. WILSONThe world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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 education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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