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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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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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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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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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