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

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

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

" 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. "

" The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity. "

" I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching. "

" Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. "

" 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. "

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

" Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves. "