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.
E. O. WILSONThe world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
More E. O. Wilson Quotes
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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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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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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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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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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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