Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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If 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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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