If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
E. O. WILSONScience for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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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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