By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
E. O. WILSONWithout 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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It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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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?
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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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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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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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