One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
E. O. WILSONIf history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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