Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
E. O. WILSONWe have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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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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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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