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.
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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