Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
E. O. WILSONIf those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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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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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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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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