There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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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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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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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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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The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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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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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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