You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
E. O. WILSONI tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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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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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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