No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet, — E. O. Wilson Barriers Copy Share Image
Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy. — E. O. Wilson Fantasy Copy Share Image
Go as far as you can, [young scientists]. The world needs you badly. — E. O. Wilson Need you Copy Share Image
One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period. — E. O. Wilson Ardent Copy Share Image
The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of… — E. O. Wilson Evolution Copy Share Image
Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake. — E. O. Wilson Ideas Copy Share Image
To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively. — E. O. Wilson Imagery Copy Share Image
Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods. — E. O. Wilson Ants Copy Share Image
Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution… — E. O. Wilson Abnormal Copy Share Image
We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because… — E. O. Wilson Chatter Copy Share Image
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree,… — E. O. Wilson Ants Copy Share Image
Sstudying ants just quickly became part of me because I was allowed to wander, explore and find things and figure things out… — E. O. Wilson Ants Copy Share Image
In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting,… — E. O. Wilson Art Copy Share Image
There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still… — E. O. Wilson Age Copy Share Image
The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological… — E. O. Wilson Cutting Copy Share Image
Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. — E. O. Wilson Atheism 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
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 Active 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 Activity 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
A paradigm shift is the best a scientist can hope for. Whenever I smell an opportunity like that, I go after it.… — E. O. Wilson Biology 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 Ambush Copy Share Image
The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under… — E. O. Wilson Birth 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 Brain Copy Share Image
Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them. — E. O. Wilson Ants 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
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions. — E. O. Wilson Adaptation Copy Share Image
The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings. — E. O. Wilson Earth Copy Share Image
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. — E. O. Wilson Achievement Copy Share Image
We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies. — E. O. Wilson Emotion Copy Share Image
The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere. — E. O. Wilson Ancient Copy Share Image
One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men. — E. O. Wilson Ants 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
Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year. — E. O. Wilson Dollars 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
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
Search until you find a passion and go all out to excel in its expression. — E. O. Wilson Excel 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
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