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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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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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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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