If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
E. O. WILSONThe 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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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