This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
E. O. WILSONTheology 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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Willing 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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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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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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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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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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