Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. WILSONIf 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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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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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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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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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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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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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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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