E. O. Wilson Quotes

Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.
E. O. Wilson

Love, Humanity, Around

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

Noisy, Ant, Passed

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
E. O. Wilson

Life, Religion, Islam

'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 historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
E. O. Wilson

Rain, Since, Interest

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

Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.
E. O. Wilson

Tell, Workers, Dominant

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, Everything, Known

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

Live, Long, Enough

When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.
E. O. Wilson

Live, Whole, Plan

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: June 10, 1929

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