There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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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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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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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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