Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. WILSONYou 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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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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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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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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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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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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