Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
E. O. WILSONPolitical ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
More E. O. Wilson Quotes
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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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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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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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