We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
E. O. WILSONJehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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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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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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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.
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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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