It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
E. O. WILSONNature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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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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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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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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