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When 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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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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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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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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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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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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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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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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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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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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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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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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