E. O. Wilson Quotes

American - Scientist Born: June 10, 1929

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. - E. O. Wilson

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. E. O. Wilson

Nature, Spiritual, Key, Aesthetic, Even

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. E. O. Wilson

Best, Failure, Alone, Path, World, Know

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. E. O. Wilson

Environmental, World, Chaos, Rich, Back

Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false. - E. O. Wilson

Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false. E. O. Wilson

Change, Die, Will, Old, Hard, Because

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity. E. O. Wilson

Humanity, Learn, Understand, Come, Scrap

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans. E. O. Wilson

Organization, Earth, Complicated, Ants

An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat. E. O. Wilson

Brain, Simple, Fast, Learn, Kind, Size

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions. E. O. Wilson

Great, Blessed, Me, Debt, Say, I Can

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. - E. O. Wilson

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. E. O. Wilson

Nature, Tree, Bird, You, Seen, Ant

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views? E. O. Wilson

Truth, Spiritual, World, Humanity, Way

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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. E. O. Wilson

Wisdom, Time, Together, People, Think

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

Growth, Environmental, Behavior, Search

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months. E. O. Wilson

Life, Alone, Humanity, Rest, Land, Out

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

Character, Great, Good, People, Quality

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. E. O. Wilson

Land, Ants, Away, Take, Many, Would

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake. E. O. Wilson

World, Ideas, Real, Own, Emerge, Sake

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, Page, Need, Everything, Known

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

Me, World, You, Principal, Ants, Tell

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science. E. O. Wilson

Science, Mind, Political, Corrupt

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. E. O. Wilson

Environmental, Painting, Renaissance

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. E. O. Wilson

Mind, Believe, Biology, Human, Evolve

Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine. E. O. Wilson

Never, Kid, Mine, Out, Bug, Period

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable. E. O. Wilson

Failure, Alone, Effort, Moral, Lost, Way

There is no better high than discovery. E. O. Wilson

Better, Discovery, High, Than

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, People, Quality, Humanity, Problem

Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them. E. O. Wilson

Know, Nothing, Up, Insects, Ants, Almost

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