“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 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
“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
“Where scientific observation addresses all phenomena existing in the real world, scientific experimentation addresses all possible real worlds, and scientific theory addresses… — Edward O. Wilson Evolution Copy Share Image
“Human beings appear to be sufficiently selfish and calculating to be capable of indefinitely greater harmony and social homeostasis. This statement is… — Edward O. Wilson Biology Copy Share Image
“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous,… — Edward O. Wilson Crisis Copy Share Image
“The origin of the human condition is best explained by the natural selection for social interaction—the inherited propensities to communicate, recognize, evaluate,… — Edward O. Wilson Human condition 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
“an iron rule exists in genetic social evolution. It is that selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, while groups of altruists beat groups… — Edward O. Wilson 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
“The predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior. Mankind has produced 100,000 religions. It is an illusion to… — Edward O. Wilson Belief Copy Share Image
“While our species continues to manufacture its radically different and untested all-human world, the rest of life should be allowed to endure,… — Edward O. Wilson Life 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
“I believe that in the process of locating new avenues of creative thought, we will also arrive at an existential conservatism. It… — Edward O. Wilson Life 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
“Like the sunlight and the firelight that guided our birth, we need a unified humanities and science to construct a full and… — Edward O. Wilson Pg-93 Copy Share Image
“Still, if history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. The… — Edward O. Wilson History 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
“Destroying forest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.” — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The advances of science and technology will bring us to the greatest moral dilemma since God stayed the hand of Abraham: how… — Edward O. Wilson Biology 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 Science Copy Share Image
“Meanwhile, it needs to be recognized, and talked about more frankly, that for philosophy the elephant in the kitchen is organized religion.… — Edward O. Wilson Faith 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
