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Humanity Quotes by E. O. Wilson
- The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the rest, benefit for…
- Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.
- [The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.
- Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory.…
- An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in…
- Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social, economic, and creative,…
- Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at…
- The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is…
- The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it is slipping away.…
- The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the…
- We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
- Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.
- If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land.…
- It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion…
- The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or…
- Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more…
- Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our…
- Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot…
- Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.
More Humanity Quotes
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further… — Neil Armstrong
- Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity. — Nancy Astor
- We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and… — David Attenborough
- My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never… — Lee Atwater
- Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the… — Ibrahim Babangida
- A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause… — Irving Babbitt
- The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment… — Irving Babbitt