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World Quotes by E. O. Wilson
- No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure how many species…
- [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.…
- [Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].
- From the freedom to explore comes the joy of learning. From knowledge acquired by personal initiative arises the desire for more knowledge. And from mastery…
- Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place.…
- 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…
- I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger: the little things that compose the foundation of our…
- The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going…
- Go as far as you can, [young scientists]. The world needs you badly.
- No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet,
- The most dangerous of devotions, in my opinion, is the one endemic to Christianity: I was not born to be of this world. With a…
- Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.
- We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world…
- You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the…
- If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects…
- We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information…
- 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…
- Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
- I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
- America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
- Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
- It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.
- Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.
- The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach