Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
E. O. WILSONIf insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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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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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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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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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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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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