Ants 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.
E. O. WILSONBecause the living environment is what really sustains us.
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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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 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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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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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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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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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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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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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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