Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
E. O. WILSONThere is no better high than discovery.
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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains 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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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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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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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