Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
E. O. WILSONScience for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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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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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 education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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