Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
E. O. WILSONIf those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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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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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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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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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