One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
E. O. WILSONWe are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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