Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
E. O. WILSONOur 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 is no better high than discovery.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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