I want us to save the creation-not just care about it, but to save it. — E. O. Wilson Care Copy Share Image
I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason." — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself. — E. O. Wilson Brain 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
To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil]. — E. O. Wilson Bacteria Copy Share Image
Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living… — E. O. Wilson Delusion 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 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
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 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 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 Copy Share Image
Science offers the boldest metaphysics of the age. It is a thoroughly human construct, driven by the faith that if we dream,… — E. O. Wilson Age 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
If you go from the USA - which, relative to the rest of the world, is in pretty good shape in terms… — E. O. Wilson Biodiversity Copy Share Image
The paradox is that, by children taking shortcuts through computer games, through fantasies, through movies that load on all the emotional stimulation… — E. O. Wilson Child Copy Share Image
It was inspiring to learn of the new Bachelor of Environmental Studies Program, and I congratulate you for it. Singapore is geographically… — E. O. Wilson Academic Copy Share Image
The big question that scientists haven't even begun to get an answer for is how many species of microorganisms are there? Now,… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly… — E. O. Wilson Animal Copy Share Image
For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization. — E. O. Wilson Faith Copy Share Image
I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. — E. O. Wilson Atheism Copy Share Image
All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments. — E. O. Wilson 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
Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius. — E. O. Wilson Animal Copy Share Image
We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology. — E. O. Wilson Age 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
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
In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story. — E. O. Wilson Art 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 beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is calling things by their right names. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart. — E. O. Wilson Empiricism 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
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