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.
E. O. WILSONDestroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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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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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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