If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
E. O. WILSONWhen you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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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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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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