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.
E. O. WILSONAnts have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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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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