One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
E. O. WILSONPolitical ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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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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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 we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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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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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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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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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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