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E O Wilson Quotes
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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 or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt. (E O Wilson Quotes)
I think history has shown that the worst way to [try to] bring people over and actually change public opinion is by insult and applied degradation of them. (E O Wilson Quotes)
Soccer moms are the enemy of natural history and the full development of a child (E O Wilson Quotes)
The paradox is that, by children taking shortcuts through computer games, through fantasies, through movies that load on all the emotional stimulation of encountering life in a stylized way - all of this is the equivalent of mainlining of paleolithic emotions, emotions about combat, about personal success, about overcoming monsters, about making powerful friendships, about winning wars and entering new territory. (E O Wilson Quotes)
The Creation’ presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible. (E O Wilson Quotes)
We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become. (E O Wilson Quotes)
Man’s destiny is to know, if only because societies with knowledge culturally dominate societies that lack it. Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not master the differential equations of thermodynamics or the biochemical cures of illness. They stay in thatched huts and die young. (E O Wilson Quotes)
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. (E O Wilson Quotes)
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. (E O Wilson Quotes)
The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic (E O Wilson Quotes)
Sstudying ants just quickly became part of me because I was allowed to wander, explore and find things and figure things out myself. And I saw how much was there and what could be done and how I could make a life of it. (E O Wilson Quotes)
[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. (E O Wilson Quotes)
We don’t know nearly enough about the complexities of Nature. If we think we can eliminate natural ecosystems and substitute prosthetic devices, i.e. clean air or water with fusion energy - we are kidding ourselves. (E O Wilson Quotes)
Evolution by natural selection is not an idle hypothesis. The genetic variation on which selection acts is well understood in principle all the way down to the molecular level. (E O Wilson Quotes)
We’ve got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies (E O Wilson Quotes)
Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an untutored savage for a while, not to know the names or anatomical detail. Better to spend stretches of time just searching and dreaming. (E O Wilson Quotes)
It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are (E O Wilson Quotes)
This planet can be a paradise in the 22nd century (E O Wilson Quotes)
Wonderful theory, wrong species (E O Wilson Quotes)
The evolutionary epic is probably the best myth we will ever have (E O Wilson Quotes)
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction (E O Wilson Quotes)
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science (E O Wilson Quotes)
The education of women is the best way to save the environment (E O Wilson Quotes)
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal (E O Wilson Quotes)
Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart (E O Wilson Quotes)
Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false (E O Wilson Quotes)
Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong (E O Wilson Quotes)
There is no better high than discovery (E O Wilson Quotes)
Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans (E O Wilson Quotes)
Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine (E O Wilson Quotes)