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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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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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Combine Exceed Genre Likely Planet Variety Virus
An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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Ago All Back Dispaper Equilibrium Exust Mankind Regenerate Richm State Thousand World Year
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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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All Ant Biomass Insect Make Third Two
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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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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