It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
E. O. WILSONThere 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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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 world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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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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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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