I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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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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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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