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.
E. O. WILSONWhat’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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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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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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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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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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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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