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.
E. O. WILSONAnts are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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