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. WILSONAnts 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 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 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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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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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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 two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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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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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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