By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
E. O. WILSONWhen you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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