One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
E. O. WILSONThere doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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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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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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