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. WILSONPeople respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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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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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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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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