From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like… — E. O. Wilson Bacteria Copy Share Image
But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully… — E. O. Wilson Animal Copy Share Image
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the… — E. O. Wilson Books Copy Share Image
'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as… — E. O. Wilson Argument Copy Share Image
That's the way to get young people. Once they see there are wonderful things to hunt for, to rediscover a species that… — E. O. Wilson Adventure Copy Share Image
Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their… — E. O. Wilson Behavior Copy Share Image
Science needs the intuition and metaphorical power of the arts, and the arts need the fresh blood of science ... Interpretation is… — E. O. Wilson Art Copy Share Image
The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ...… — E. O. Wilson Biology Copy Share Image
Women are extraordinary in lacking the estrus, or period of heat. The females of most other primate species become sexually active, to… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever… — E. O. Wilson Art Copy Share Image
The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a… — E. O. Wilson Ants Copy Share Image
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories. — E. O. Wilson Conflict Copy Share Image
I think history has shown that the worst way to [try to] bring people over and actually change public opinion is by… — E. O. Wilson Degradation Copy Share Image
Every kid has a bug period, I like to say, and I just got so fascinated and I had that experience, that… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface… — E. O. Wilson Ants Copy Share Image
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of… — E. O. Wilson Adventure Copy Share Image
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. — E. O. Wilson Altruism Copy Share Image
People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a… — E. O. Wilson Clubs Copy Share Image
We don't know nearly enough about the complexities of Nature. If we think we can eliminate natural ecosystems and substitute prosthetic devices,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in… — E. O. Wilson Biology Copy Share Image
The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of… — E. O. Wilson Cooperation Copy Share Image
It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes… — E. O. Wilson Biosphere Copy Share Image
We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species… — E. O. Wilson Action Copy Share Image
The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional… — E. O. Wilson Absolutes Copy Share Image
The global conservation organisations are doing everything they can on modest budgets. They essentially promote setting aside reserves and parks around the… — E. O. Wilson Around the world Copy Share Image
If someone could actually prove scientifically that there is such a thing as a supernatural force, it would be one of the… — E. O. Wilson Discovery Copy Share Image
America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous… — E. O. Wilson America Copy Share Image
The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and… — E. O. Wilson Ancestor Copy Share Image
I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell… — E. O. Wilson Ants Copy Share Image
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity… — E. O. Wilson Conservation Copy Share Image
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