“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
“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
“(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
“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
“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 Evolution 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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