Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
E. O. WILSONIt’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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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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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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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