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.
E. O. WILSONAnts have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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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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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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