By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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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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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.
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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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