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.
E. O. WILSONAim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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