Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
E. O. WILSONThis is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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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 insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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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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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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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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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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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 moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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