Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
E. O. WILSONCompeting is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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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 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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There is no better high than discovery.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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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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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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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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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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