This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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 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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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