To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively. — E. O. Wilson Imagery Copy Share Image
Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input. — E. O. Wilson Brain Copy Share Image
Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them. — E. O. Wilson Ants Copy Share Image
Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods. — E. O. Wilson Ants Copy Share Image
Much of good science and perhaps all of great science has its roots in fantasy. — E. O. Wilson Fantasy Copy Share Image
One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period. — E. O. Wilson Ardent Copy Share Image
That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart. — E. O. Wilson 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 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 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 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
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 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 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
[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 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 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 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 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 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 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
We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo. — E. O. Wilson Angry Copy Share Image
I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster. — E. O. Wilson Adherence Copy Share Image
No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet, — E. O. Wilson Barriers Copy Share Image
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. — E. O. Wilson Ants Copy Share Image
In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. — E. O. Wilson Ants Copy Share Image
To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution. — E. O. Wilson Biology 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 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
Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms. — E. O. Wilson 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 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
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