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.
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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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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 moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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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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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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