We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
E. O. WILSONPeople need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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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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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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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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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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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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