The education of women is the best way to save the environment. — E. O. Wilson Best way Copy Share Image
The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity. — E. O. Wilson Biology Copy Share Image
Because the living environment is what really sustains us. — E. O. Wilson Environment Copy Share Image
Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages. — E. O. Wilson Amount Copy Share Image
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive. — E. O. Wilson Force Copy Share Image
To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong. — E. O. Wilson Doors Copy Share Image
The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth. — E. O. Wilson Ants Copy Share Image
Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself. — E. O. Wilson Brain Copy Share Image
I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason." — E. O. Wilson Failing Copy Share Image
I want us to save the creation-not just care about it, but to save it. — E. O. Wilson Care 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
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 Becoming 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 Billions Copy Share Image
In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism… — E. O. Wilson Altruism 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 Critical 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 Death Copy Share Image
I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible… — E. O. Wilson Bedrock Copy Share Image
The vast majority of species that are vanishing, we haven't even discovered yet. How can you possibly put them back in nature… — E. O. Wilson Ecosystems Copy Share Image
Human beings function better if they are deceived by their genes into thinking that there is a disinterested objective morality binding upon… — E. O. Wilson Binding Copy Share Image
If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting… — E. O. Wilson Ceremony 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… — E. O. Wilson Access Copy Share Image
Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or… — E. O. Wilson Accidents 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 Accepting 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 Achieve Copy Share Image
Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth… — E. O. Wilson Biosphere Copy Share Image
Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted… — E. O. Wilson Adapted Copy Share Image
The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having… — E. O. Wilson All kinds Copy Share Image
Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year. — E. O. Wilson Dollars Copy Share Image
Search until you find a passion and go all out to excel in its expression. — E. O. Wilson Excel 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
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. — E. O. Wilson Burning 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 Become Copy Share Image
Ninety-nine percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct. — E. O. Wilson Animal Copy Share Image
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