“The creation myth is a Darwinian device for survival.” — Edward O. Wilson Darwinian Copy Share Image
“Meat yields higher energy per gram eaten than does vegetation.” — Edward O. Wilson Food Copy Share Image
“Timothy Beatley in Biophilic Cities: Integrating Nature into Urban Design and Planning (2011)” — Edward O. Wilson Nature 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
“[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
“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
“[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
“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 Existence 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 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
“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
“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
“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 Adaptation 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 Humanity 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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 Creation stories 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 Existential 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
“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 Humanities 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
“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
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