Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
E. O. WILSONWe 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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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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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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.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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I 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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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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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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