Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. "

Related Quotes:

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

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

" We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity. "

" Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views? "

" 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. "

" We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories. "

" If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine. "

" The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth. "

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

" I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" People respect nonfiction but they read novels. "

" Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. "

" 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. "

" 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. "