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.
E. O. WILSONAn 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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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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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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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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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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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