Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. WILSONIf insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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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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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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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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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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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 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 have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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