"The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans."
-E. O. Wilson
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"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?“
-E. O. Wilson
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"The education of women is the best way to save the environment."
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"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."
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"If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth."
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"The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature."
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