In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
E. O. WILSONScience for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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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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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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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.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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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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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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