“The most successful scientist thinks like a poet—wide-ranging, sometimes fantastical—and works like a bookkeeper. It is the latter role that the world… — Edward O. Wilson Poetry 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
“When an individual is cooperative and altruistic, this reduces his advantage in competition to a comparable degree with other members but increases… — Edward O. Wilson Character Copy Share Image
“For the entire course of evolution leading from our primitive mammalian forebears of a hundred million years ago to the single lineage… — Edward O. Wilson Years ago Copy Share Image
“If science depended on rhetoric and polls, we would still be burning objects with phlogiston and navigating with geocentric maps. [Criticizing Richard… — Edward O. Wilson Science Copy Share Image
