It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
E. O. WILSONIf insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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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 many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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