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The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched.
E. O. Wilson
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E. O. Wilson
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: June 10
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The love of complexity without reductionism makes art the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
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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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