Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
E. O. WILSONAnts 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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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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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.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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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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