There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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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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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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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