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.
E. O. WILSONScience for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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 are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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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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