I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.
From E. O. Wilson
Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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.
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
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