The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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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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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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