Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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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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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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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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