Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
E. O. WILSONIf those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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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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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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