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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

E. O. Wilson

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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Belief Competing Essential Evolve Group Illogic Religion Selection Strength Weakness
The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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Accept Another Dilemma Discover Essence Evolve Genitival Humanity One Spiritual Truth
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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Another Committed Fail Find Forgive Guy Lost Quest Those
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Anything Desire History Passion Same Science Taight Truth
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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All Ant Biomass Insect Make Third Two
Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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Ant Dominant Great Habitat Impact Inspect Million Year
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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Being Brain Even Human Individual Laboratory Maze Millionth Rat Simple Size Thought Use
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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Atmosphere Better Democratic End Principle Product Win
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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Bless Brillant Enemies Irony Trace
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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Among Conflict Consequence Creation Ought People Difference Recognize Story Strife
There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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Any Create Green Next Other Revolution Seem Way
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Achievement Enlightenment Faith Justify Measure Reasonable Science Think
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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Altruism Colleague Kin Mathematician Origin Reigning Selection Theory Time
Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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Company Further Growth Share Willing Withhold
One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Ardent Bug Grow Naturalist One Period Thing Up
In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Ant Away Collapse Ecosystem Environment Land Many Partial

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