It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
E. O. WILSONEvery kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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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 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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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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