Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
E. O. WILSONEvery kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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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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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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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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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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