Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. WILSONDestroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
More E. O. Wilson Quotes
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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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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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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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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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