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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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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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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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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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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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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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The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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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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It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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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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