The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins… — E. O. Wilson Broads Copy Share Image
I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell… — E. O. Wilson Ants Copy Share Image
The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the… — E. O. Wilson Athlete Copy Share Image
Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens. — E. O. Wilson Abundance Copy Share Image
We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of… — E. O. Wilson Animal Copy Share Image
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they… — E. O. Wilson Biblical 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… — E. O. Wilson Age Copy Share Image
We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have… — E. O. Wilson Accepting Copy Share Image
Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social,… — E. O. Wilson Avenues Copy Share Image
[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy… — E. O. Wilson Civilization 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
Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong.… — E. O. Wilson Age 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 Adapted Copy Share Image
Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions… — E. O. Wilson Ache 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
Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love… — E. O. Wilson Biology 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 Ancestor 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 Around the world Copy Share Image
The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species… — E. O. Wilson Action Copy Share Image
The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional… — E. O. Wilson Absolutes 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 America Copy Share Image
If someone could actually prove scientifically that there is such a thing as a supernatural force, it would be one of the… — E. O. Wilson Discovery 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… — E. O. Wilson Blessed Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look… — E. O. Wilson Deep within Copy Share Image
I think we will make it. Because one quality people have - certainly Americans have it - is that they can adapt… — E. O. Wilson America Copy Share Image
Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of… — E. O. Wilson Billions Copy Share Image
I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a… — E. O. Wilson Character Copy Share Image
I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger: the little things that compose the… — E. O. Wilson Animals Copy Share Image
Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are… — E. O. Wilson Adapted Copy Share Image
The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be… — E. O. Wilson Brain Copy Share Image
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin… — E. O. Wilson Evolution 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 Chaos Copy Share Image
Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted… — E. O. Wilson Ancient Copy Share Image
In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will… — E. O. Wilson Certain Copy Share Image
The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of… — E. O. Wilson 21st century 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 had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the… — E. O. Wilson Books Copy Share Image
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and… — E. O. Wilson Accepting Copy Share Image
From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge.… — E. O. Wilson Arise Copy Share Image
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream… — E. O. Wilson Calling Copy Share Image
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