People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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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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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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