There is no better high than discovery.
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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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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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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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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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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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