E. O. Wilson Quotes

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
E. O. Wilson

Respect, Read, Novels

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
E. O. Wilson

Religious, Belief, Religions

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
E. O. Wilson

Religion, Science, Powerful

The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
E. O. Wilson

Noisy, Ant, Passed

'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

Book, Earth, Possible

The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
E. O. Wilson

Human, Earth, Ancient

The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
E. O. Wilson

Two, Situation, Economic

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

Life, Rest, Planet

The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
E. O. Wilson

Work, Humans, Affected

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
E. O. Wilson

Energy, Around, Players

There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
E. O. Wilson

Revolution, Next, Seem

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
E. O. Wilson

Wrong, Both, Close

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
E. O. Wilson

Religion, Character, True

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

Between, Religious, Creation

What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
E. O. Wilson

Life, Known, Electronic

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

Life, Humanity, Problem

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
E. O. Wilson

Time, Human, Start

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
E. O. Wilson

Forgive, Process, Natural

Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
E. O. Wilson

End, Win, Through

I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
E. O. Wilson

Deep, Christian, Others

I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.
E. O. Wilson

Good, Great, Character

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
E. O. Wilson

Choice, Accept, Growth

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

Time, Two, Theory

In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.
E. O. Wilson

Time, Today, School

Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.
E. O. Wilson

Real, May, Small

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Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: June 10, 1929

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