The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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 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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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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.
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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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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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