We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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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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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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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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