There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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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.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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 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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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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