People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
E. O. WILSONWe are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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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 some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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