One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
E. O. WILSONOur brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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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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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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