The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth. — E. O. Wilson 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 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
Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods. — E. O. Wilson 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
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
No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet, — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best,… — E. O. Wilson 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil]. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years… — E. O. Wilson 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 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 Copy Share Image
Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not… — 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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