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In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.
E. O. Wilson
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E. O. Wilson
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: June 10
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Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.
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The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ... The intellectual solution to the first dilemma can be achieved by a deeper and more courageous examination of human nature that combines the findings of biology with those of the social sciences.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
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In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
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Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.
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I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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Humanity needs a vision of an expanding and unending future.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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People would rather believe than know.
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But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
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In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.
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We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.
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The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions medieval institutions and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.
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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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