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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. "

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" Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals. "

" In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty. "

" The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere. "

" Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. "

" 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. "

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

" The education of women is the best way to save the environment. "

" America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost. "

" Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions. "

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

" It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character. "

" People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive. "

" Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false. "

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

" In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner. "

" There is no better high than discovery. "

" To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong. "

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

" Because the living environment is what really sustains us. "