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.
E. O. WILSONDestroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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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.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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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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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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