“Timothy Beatley in Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning (2011)” — Edward O. Wilson Nature Copy Share Image
“The creation myth is a Darwinian device for survival.” — Edward O. Wilson Darwinian Copy Share Image
“if our conception of human nature is to be altered, it must be by means of truths conforming to the canons of… — Edward O. Wilson Human nature Copy Share Image
“primary mental abilities and perceptual and motor skills are the most influenced by heredity, while personality traits are the least influenced. If” — Edward O. Wilson Heredity Copy Share Image
“Human beings and their social orders are intrinsically imperfectible and fortunately so. In a constantly changing world, we need the flexibility that… — Edward O. Wilson Changing World Copy Share Image
“Possibly here in the Holocene, or just before 10 or 20 thousand years ago, life hit a peak of diversity. Then we… — Edward O. Wilson Life Copy Share Image
“let’s also promote the humanities, that which makes us human, and not use science to mess around with the wellspring of this,… — Edward O. Wilson Humanities Copy Share Image
“Like most other mammals, human beings display a behavioral scale, a spectrum of responses that appear or disappear according to particular circumstances.” — Edward O. Wilson Animal Copy Share Image
“Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. A sharp sense of empathy can make a huge difference, and with it… — Edward O. Wilson Empathy Copy Share Image
“To express this increasingly complex subject as succinctly as possible, the ancestors of our species developed the brain power to connect with… — Edward O. Wilson Brain power Copy Share Image
“To explore and affiliate with life is a deep and complicated process in mental development. To an extent still undervalued in philosophy… — Edward O. Wilson Life Copy Share Image
“Annie Dillard was a pioneer in her Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1974. Among other notable examples… — Edward O. Wilson Natural history Copy Share Image
“Traditional religious beliefs have been eroded, not so much by humiliating disproofs of their mythologies as by the growing awareness that beliefs… — Edward O. Wilson Faith Copy Share Image
“Science, its imperfections notwithstanding, is the sword in the stone that humanity finally pulled. The question it poses, of universal and orderly… — Edward O. Wilson Nature of man Copy Share Image
“Nature is the birthright of everyone on Earth. The millions of species we have allowed to survive are our phylogenetic kin. Their… — Edward O. Wilson History Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, because humanity is still swept along by animal passions in a digitalized global world, and because we are conflicted between what… — Edward O. Wilson Humanistic Copy Share Image
“Serious art, whether expressed in score, script, or image, seizes you on first encounter. It then holds and distracts you long enough… — Edward O. Wilson Art Copy Share Image
“Dawkins is an eloquent science journalist. What else is he? I mean journalism is a high and influential profession. But he’s not… — Edward O. Wilson Last time Copy Share Image
“The main shortcoming of humanistic scholarship is its extreme anthropocentrism. Nothing, it seems, matters in the creative arts and critical humanistic analyses… — Edward O. Wilson Rest of life Copy Share Image
“Another principle that I believe can be justified by scientific evidence so far is that nobody is going to emigrate from this… — Edward O. Wilson Emigration Copy Share Image
“Overall, it seems now possible to draw a reasonably good explanation of why the human condition is a singularity, why the likes… — Edward O. Wilson Evolution Copy Share Image
“Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the… — Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Copy Share Image
“Moreover, we look in vain to philosophy for the answer to the great riddle. Despite its noble purpose and history, pure philosophy… — Edward O. Wilson History Copy Share Image
“Human beings were made for music. Its thrill and rapture are picked up almost immediately by little children” — Edward O. Wilson Adventure Copy Share Image
“The integrative powers of the brain for the sensations that come from handling objects spills out into all other domains of intelligence.” — Edward O. Wilson Intelligence Copy Share Image
“[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.” — Edward O. Wilson Darwinian Copy Share Image
“[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.” — Edward O. Wilson Humanism Copy Share Image
“Destroying forest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.” — Edward O. Wilson Burning Copy Share Image
“The reason is simply the extreme improbability of the preadaptations necessary for it to occur at all. Each of these evolutionary steps… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I believe that the ten billion people expected to be present at the end of the century will enjoy a far better… — Edward O. Wilson Life Copy Share Image
“There is no dispute between me and Richard Dawkins and there never has been, because he’s a journalist, and journalists are people… — Edward O. Wilson Journalists Copy Share Image
“pseudospeciation, the reduction of alien societies to the status of inferior species, not fully human, who can be degraded without conscience. Even” — Edward O. Wilson Ethics Copy Share Image
“There must be an ability to pass long hours in study and research with pleasure even though some of the effort will… — Edward O. Wilson Dead end Copy Share Image
“I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dalí, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said, 'I will be… — Edward O. Wilson Communication Copy Share Image
“(Writers of Earth-invader science fiction, please remember to provide all your aliens with soft grasping hands or tentacles or some other fleshy… — Edward O. Wilson Science Copy Share Image
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