Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
E. O. WILSONThe 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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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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 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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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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