Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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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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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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