We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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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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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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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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