If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
E. O. WILSONScience and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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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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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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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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