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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?
One planet, one experiment.
Wonderful theory, wrong species.
People would rather believe than know.
There is no better high than discovery.
Theology made no provision for evolution.
People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
This planet can be a paradise in the 22nd century.
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.
Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.
True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)
Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
Humanity needs a vision of an expanding and unending future.
The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have.
The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity.
The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper
Ninety-nine percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.
Go as far as you can, [young scientists]. The world needs you badly.
I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
I want us to save the creation-not just care about it, but to save it.
In science, obsessiveness under psychological control can be a virtue.
The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.
In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
Search until you find a passion and go all out to excel in its expression.
Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.
You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.
Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species
Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy.
Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods.
We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.
Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.
Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
The beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is calling things by their right names.
That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart.
Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
