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E O Wilson Quotes

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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period  (E O Wilson Quotes) Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input  (E O Wilson Quotes) Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions  (E O Wilson Quotes) The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth  (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) The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined  (E O Wilson Quotes) The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world  (E O Wilson Quotes) There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs  (E O Wilson Quotes) We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories  (E O Wilson Quotes) In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time  (E O Wilson Quotes) We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there  (E O Wilson Quotes) Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years  (E O Wilson Quotes) But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world  (E O Wilson Quotes) I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind  (E O Wilson Quotes) Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind  (E O Wilson Quotes) What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts  (E O Wilson Quotes) Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering  (E O Wilson Quotes) Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do  (E O Wilson Quotes) In the end... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come  (E O Wilson Quotes) The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science  (E O Wilson Quotes) The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible  (E O Wilson Quotes) Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life  (E O Wilson Quotes) In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species  (E O Wilson Quotes) The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the rest, benefit for humanity  (E O Wilson Quotes) Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens  (E O Wilson Quotes) Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of knowledge, alluding to Icarus of the Greek myth  (E O Wilson Quotes) Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms  (E O Wilson Quotes) The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere  (E O Wilson Quotes) Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself  (E O Wilson Quotes) [Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil]  (E O Wilson Quotes)
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