Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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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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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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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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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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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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