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.
E. O. WILSONTrue character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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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 variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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