The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere. — E. O. Wilson Ancient Copy Share Image
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Search until you find a passion and go all out to excel in its expression. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. — E. O. Wilson Desire Copy Share Image
Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year. — E. O. Wilson Dollars Copy Share Image
There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs. — E. O. Wilson Creating Copy Share Image
We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo. — E. O. Wilson Angry Copy Share Image
I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster. — E. O. Wilson Adherence Copy Share Image
It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life -… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of… — E. O. Wilson Armageddon Copy Share Image
In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired… — E. O. Wilson Army Copy Share Image
To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes… — E. O. Wilson Ability Copy Share Image
These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly… — E. O. Wilson Animal Copy Share Image
No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure… — E. O. Wilson Astronomy Copy Share Image
The paradox is that, by children taking shortcuts through computer games, through fantasies, through movies that load on all the emotional stimulation… — E. O. Wilson Child Copy Share Image
If you go from the USA - which, relative to the rest of the world, is in pretty good shape in terms… — E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Copy Share Image
It was inspiring to learn of the new Bachelor of Environmental Studies Program, and I congratulate you for it. Singapore is geographically… — E. O. Wilson Academic Copy Share Image
The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind.… — E. O. Wilson Biology Copy Share Image
Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong.… — E. O. Wilson Age Copy Share Image
The students of biodiversity, the ones we most need in science today, have an enormous task ahead of molecular biology and the… — E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Copy Share Image
That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet, — E. O. Wilson Barriers Copy Share Image
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. — E. O. Wilson Ants Copy Share Image
To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution. — E. O. Wilson Biology Copy Share Image
In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. — E. O. Wilson Ants Copy Share Image
The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of… — E. O. Wilson Evolution Copy Share Image
To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively. — E. O. Wilson Imagery Copy Share Image
Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake. — E. O. Wilson Ideas Copy Share Image
Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them. — E. O. Wilson Ants Copy Share Image
Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input. — E. O. Wilson Brain Copy Share Image
Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods. — E. O. Wilson Ants Copy Share Image
Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy. — E. O. Wilson Fantasy Copy Share Image
One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period. — E. O. Wilson Ardent Copy Share Image
“A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.” — E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Copy Share Image
We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology. — E. O. Wilson Age Copy Share Image
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