In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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 education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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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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