There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
E. O. WILSONAnts 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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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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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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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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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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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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