[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion… — E. O. Wilson 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
Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it. — E. O. Wilson 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
We have to create a sustainable environment, worldwide, and we're not doing it. The best thing we can do with the rest… — E. O. Wilson 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
Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We should not knowingly allow any species or race to go extinct. And let us go beyond mere salvage to begin the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look… — E. O. Wilson 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
The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Every ecosystem, even a small one, is sustainable because it has certain ensembles and conditions and influences that are unique to it.… — 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
[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin… — E. O. Wilson 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 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 Copy Share Image
In fact, nothing in science as a whole has been more firmly established by interwoven factual information, or more illuminating than the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled… — E. O. Wilson 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 up the… — 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 beat groups… — 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 and race… — E. O. Wilson 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 our species'… — E. O. Wilson 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 dependent on… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity. — E. O. Wilson 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 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 humanism is… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
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