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.
E. O. WILSONWe are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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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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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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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 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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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