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.
E. O. WILSONWilling to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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 world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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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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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 essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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