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.
E. O. WILSONIn 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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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