If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
E. O. WILSONPersist! The world needs all you can give.
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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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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 are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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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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