Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. WILSONAn 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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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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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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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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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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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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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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