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.
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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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 history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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