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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

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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 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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There is no better high than discovery.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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 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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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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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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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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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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.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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