The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
E. O. WILSONThe essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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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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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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