The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
E. O. WILSONAim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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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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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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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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 insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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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.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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