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.
E. O. WILSONBecause the living environment is what really sustains us.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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