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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.
E. O. WILSON

Ant Biomass Cemetery Dominant Inspect Make Myuchm Quater Predators Principal Tell Well Worker
I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
E. O. WILSON

Associate Belief Charity Christian Deep Especial Ethi Fairness Generosity Ideal Obligation Other Teaching Term Tolerance Traditional Virtue
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
E. O. WILSON

Altruism Among Group Individual Member Mix Selfishness Society Versus Virtue
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Across Belief Change Come Demonstrate Even Fall Generation Hard Slowly
The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
E. O. WILSON

Accept Another Dilemma Discover Essence Evolve Genitival Humanity One Spiritual Truth
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.
E. O. WILSON

Bless Brillant Enemies Irony Trace
There is no better high than discovery.
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Better Discovery High One Liner
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
E. O. WILSON

Aesthetic Cognitive Even Hold Intellectual Key Nature Satisfaction Spiritual
Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
E. O. WILSON

Bug Every Grew Kid never Out Period
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. WILSON

Burn Cook Destroy Economic Gain Meal Paint Rainforest Renaissance
In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
E. O. WILSON

Ant Away Collapse Ecosystem Environment Land Many Partial
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. WILSON

Altruist Always Among Beat Compete Contest Group Human Individual Intense Selfish Win
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
E. O. WILSON

Cail Cease Come Environment Perhaps Time View
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
E. O. WILSON

Drown Information Starve Wisdom
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
E. O. WILSON

Ago All Back Dispaper Equilibrium Exust Mankind Regenerate Richm State Thousand World Year
Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
E. O. WILSON

Ant Complicate Earth Human Most Next Organization Social

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