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.
E. O. WILSONYou 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.
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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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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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