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.
E. O. WILSONThe moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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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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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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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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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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