Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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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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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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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