Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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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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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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