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.
E. O. WILSONOne thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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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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