Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. WILSONBecause the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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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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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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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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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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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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