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
We don't even know what species are out there, for the most part, particularly when you get down to the microbes and… — E. O. Wilson Certain Copy Share Image
The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ...… — E. O. Wilson Biology Copy Share Image
[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever… — E. O. Wilson Art Copy Share Image
That's what the best global conservation organisations and the American government (and other environmentally inclined governments, such as Sweden and the Netherlands)… — E. O. Wilson American government Copy Share Image
Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and… — E. O. Wilson Ancient Copy Share Image
In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will… — E. O. Wilson Difficult Copy Share Image
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human… — E. O. Wilson Assumption Copy Share Image
“A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.” — E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Copy Share Image
If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going… — E. O. Wilson Bigs Copy Share Image
The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere. — E. O. Wilson Ancient 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
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. — E. O. Wilson Altruism Copy Share Image
'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as… — E. O. Wilson Argument Copy Share Image
I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution. — E. O. Wilson Believe 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
No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure… — E. O. Wilson Astronomy Copy Share Image
I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement. — E. O. Wilson Agreement Copy Share Image
Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms. — E. O. Wilson Affiliation Copy Share Image
So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just… — E. O. Wilson Alabama Copy Share Image
In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner. — E. O. Wilson Books Copy Share Image
The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind.… — E. O. Wilson Biology Copy Share Image
Man's destiny is to know, if only because societies with knowledge culturally dominate societies that lack it. Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not… — E. O. Wilson Cures Copy Share Image
I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it. — E. O. Wilson Doubt Copy Share Image
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