There is no better high than discovery.
E. O. WILSONI had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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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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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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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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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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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 education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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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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