We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
E. O. WILSONThe world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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.
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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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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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