One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
E. O. WILSONScience for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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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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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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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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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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