Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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The 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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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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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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