Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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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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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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.
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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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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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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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