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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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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 have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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