Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
E. O. WILSONIdeas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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 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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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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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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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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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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