"The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans."
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"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.“
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"In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work."
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"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."
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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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