This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
E. O. WILSONNature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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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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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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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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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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