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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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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 dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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