If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
E. O. WILSONThe 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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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.
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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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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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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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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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