The education of women is the best way to save the environment. — E. O. Wilson Best way Copy Share Image
It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are. — E. O. Wilson Astronomy Copy Share Image
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer. — E. O. Wilson Books Copy Share Image
The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic. — E. O. Wilson Epic Copy Share Image
The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world. — E. O. Wilson Around the world Copy Share Image
The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
In science, obsessiveness under psychological control can be a virtue. — E. O. Wilson Psychological Copy Share Image
Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper — E. O. Wilson Bookkeepers Copy Share Image
The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings. — E. O. Wilson Earth Copy Share Image
Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high… — E. O. Wilson Funeral Copy Share Image
So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The vast majority of species that are vanishing, we haven't even discovered yet. How can you possibly put them back in nature… — E. O. Wilson Ecosystems Copy Share Image
No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it… — E. O. Wilson Death Copy Share Image
In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism… — E. O. Wilson Altruism Copy Share Image
I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Biology has finally opened up to achieve a unifying embrace of all its disciplines. We're seeing the renaissance of what could be… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or… — E. O. Wilson Accidents Copy Share Image
Yes, the natural sciences are telling us a great deal about human origins, the origins of our species the origins of our… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Science offers the boldest metaphysics of the age. It is a thoroughly human construct, driven by the faith that if we dream,… — E. O. Wilson Age Copy Share Image
Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of… — E. O. Wilson Access Copy Share Image
If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting… — E. O. Wilson Ceremony Copy Share Image
If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The big question that scientists haven't even begun to get an answer for is how many species of microorganisms are there? Now,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Because the living environment is what really sustains us. — E. O. Wilson Environment Copy Share Image
We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies. — E. O. Wilson Emotion Copy Share Image
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. — E. O. Wilson Achievement Copy Share Image
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions. — E. O. Wilson Adaptation Copy Share Image
We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct. — E. O. Wilson Animal Copy Share Image
One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men. — E. O. Wilson Ants Copy Share Image
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