In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
E. O. WILSONAnts have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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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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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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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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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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