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. WILSONIf those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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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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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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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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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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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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