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Humans Quotes by E. O. Wilson
- Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
- Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.
- The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere.
- Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.
- The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not…
- No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and…
- The genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the…
- 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,…
- Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not vie for our…
- 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 price of these failures has been a loss of moral consensus, a greater sense of helplessness about the human condition. ... The intellectual solution…
- The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules…
- I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to the point of…
- Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence…
- To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.
- Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of…
- Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
- Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
- The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
- It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
- The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
- The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
- Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity,…
- But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could…
- An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong