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" I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster. "

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" 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 the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer. "

" If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. "

" 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. "

" I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it. "

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" For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. "

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

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

" Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution. "

" The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans. "

" 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. "