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.
E. O. WILSONIf history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
More E. O. Wilson Quotes
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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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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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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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The 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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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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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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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