It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like… — E. O. Wilson Bacteria Copy Share Image
People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will… — E. O. Wilson Alive Copy Share Image
The human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are… — E. O. Wilson Camps 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… — E. O. Wilson Biodiversity 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 Able 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 Animal Copy Share Image
So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a… — E. O. Wilson Arthropods Copy Share Image
Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high… — E. O. Wilson Funeral Copy Share Image
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion… — E. O. Wilson Catastrophe Copy Share Image
The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations,… — E. O. Wilson Agents 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
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
[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that… — E. O. Wilson Assuming Copy Share Image
Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get… — E. O. Wilson Atmosphere 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 Born 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
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
Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of… — E. O. Wilson Ants Copy Share Image
When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms… — E. O. Wilson Animal Copy Share Image
So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we've been around… — E. O. Wilson Ancient Copy Share Image
Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all… — E. O. Wilson Biology Copy Share Image
Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about… — E. O. Wilson Care Copy Share Image
I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others,… — E. O. Wilson Belief Copy Share Image
Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to… — E. O. Wilson Animal Copy Share Image
[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to… — E. O. Wilson Dollars Copy Share Image
To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play… — E. O. Wilson Answers Copy Share Image
If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion… — E. O. Wilson Acres Copy Share Image
In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired… — E. O. Wilson Army 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
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
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 Aim Copy Share Image
Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes… — E. O. Wilson Ability 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
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
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
An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of… — E. O. Wilson Armageddon Copy Share Image
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