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.
E. O. WILSONThere doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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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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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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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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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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