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.
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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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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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 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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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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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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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