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.
E. O. WILSONChange will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
More E. O. Wilson Quotes
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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.
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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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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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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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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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