Best E. O. Wilson Sayings
- The laws of biology are written in the language of diversity. Biology
- Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted entity that shares… Ancient
- The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it is slipping away.… Achieve
- The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a… Born
- The price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ... The intellectual solution… Achieved
- Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world. Apart
- There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us. Age
- In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or… Any
- Search until you find a passion and go all out to excel in its expression. All
- A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254) Condemns
- The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper Bookkeeper
- We are not afraid of predators, we're transfixed by them, prone to weave stories and fables and chatter endlessly about them, because fascination creates preparedness,… Afraid
- Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner. All
- In science, you really do need to have a purpose-driven life. You will succeed to the extent that you get the most out of your… Achieve
- In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story. Art
- Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition. Ability
- If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support… Acres
- If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there is any moral… All
- The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings. Been
- If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only answer anyone can… Afterward
- The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in… Action
- The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of dinosaurs. Age
- The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules… Absolute
- Because the living environment is what really sustains us. Environment
- It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in… All
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