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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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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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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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