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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive. (E. O. Wilson)
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer. View quote
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us. View quote
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment. View quote
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period. View quote
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When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan. View quote
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I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife. View quote
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world. View quote
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Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine. View quote
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What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species. View quote
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The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth. (E. O. Wilson)
Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work. View quote
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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. View quote
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For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization. View quote
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans. View quote
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America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost. View quote
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I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect. View quote
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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. (E. O. Wilson)
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. View quote
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So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world. View quote
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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them. View quote
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I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster. View quote
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