Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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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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It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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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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