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Inspirational Quotes by E. O. Wilson
- [O]ld beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
- There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.
- Search until you find a passion and go all out to excel in its expression.
- A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)
- The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper
- The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.
- Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
- The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
- When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
- Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
- There is no better high than discovery.
- In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.
- Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
- People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
- The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
- People would rather believe than know.
- Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species
- The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento