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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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 world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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