"The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and……" — E. O. Wilson
"The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper"
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194 Quotes by E. O. Wilson
E. O. Wilson has 194 quotes on this site.
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The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment…
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Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.
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Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
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Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious…
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Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living…
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Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane…
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No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know…
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The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat…
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The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or…
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Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.
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The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird,…
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[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services,…
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More Bookkeeper Quotes
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My father, a bookkeeper who never earned more than $11,000 a year in his life, sat there, writing out a…
— Michael Bloomberg
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I am writing to apply for the position of bookkeeper. Attached, you will find my list of qualifications. I have…
— Joey Comeau
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The income tax is the biggest single intrusion suffered by the American people. It forces every worker to be a…
— Harry Browne
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Their educations ended with high school - my father going to work as a clerk and then salesman in a…
— Martin Lewis Perl
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I was raised in Brooklyn and in Baltimore. My father was a bookkeeper. When I was 36 years old, my…
— Harry Frankfurt
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Yet we can be sure that whatever fictions exist in Wall Street bookkeeping, the earth is a faithful scribe, a…
— Thomas Berry
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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.
— Bela Lugosi
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This was solidarity. The debutante having her toenails pedicured - the housewife buying carrots from a pushcart - the bookkeeper…
— Ayn Rand
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We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of…
— John Steinbeck
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Daytime television, you can tell who’s watching by the three kinds of commercials. Either it’s clinics for drying out drunks.…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Having faith in the plan of salvation includes steadfastly refusing to be diverted from our true identities and responsibilities. In…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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My mother-in-law, Nanny, spent her working years as a bookkeeper at a medical office in Columbus, Ohio. Like so many…
— Ann McLane Kuster
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