One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
E. O. WILSONWhen you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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