Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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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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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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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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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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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