Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
E. O. WILSONThe 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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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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.
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