People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
E. O. WILSONPersist! The world needs all you can give.
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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 have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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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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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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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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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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