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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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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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.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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