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.
E. O. WILSONIf we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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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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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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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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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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