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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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" Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive. "

" It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere. "

" I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it. "

" In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work. "

" The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can. "

" Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake. "

" We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. "

" But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture. "

" There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs. "

" 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. "

" Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. "

" There is no better high than discovery. "

" Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength. "

" 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. "

" Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science. "

" The 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. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us. "

" When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. "

" Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking. "

" 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. "

" Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input. "

" The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined. "

" Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God? "

" The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world. "

" What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts. "

" One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period. "

" 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. "

" It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships. "

" 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. "

" 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. "