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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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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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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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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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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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