"The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans."
-E. O. Wilson
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"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.“
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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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