“The main shortcoming of humanistic scholarship is its extreme anthropocentrism. Nothing, it seems, matters in the creative arts and critical humanistic analyses… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“While our species continues to manufacture its radically different and untested all-human world, the rest of life should be allowed to endure,… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I believe that in the process of locating new avenues of creative thought, we will also arrive at an existential conservatism. It… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Nature is the birthright of everyone on Earth. The millions of species we have allowed to survive are our phylogenetic kin. Their long-term history… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Traditional religious beliefs have been eroded, not so much by humiliating disproofs of their mythologies as by the growing awareness that beliefs are really… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.” — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Overall, it seems now possible to draw a reasonably good explanation of why the human condition is a singularity, why the likes of it… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“let’s also promote the humanities, that which makes us human, and not use science to mess around with the wellspring of this, the absolute… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Moreover, we look in vain to philosophy for the answer to the great riddle. Despite its noble purpose and history, pure philosophy long ago… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Annie Dillard was a pioneer in her Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974. Among other notable examples are David… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Human beings and their social orders are intrinsically imperfectible and fortunately so. In a constantly changing world, we need the flexibility that only imperfection… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Another principle that I believe can be justified by scientific evidence so far is that nobody is going to emigrate from this planet not… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“To explore and affiliate with life is a deep and complicated process in mental development. To an extent still undervalued in philosophy and religion,… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. A sharp sense of empathy can make a huge difference, and with it in an… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
