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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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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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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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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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