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