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American
-
Scientist
Born:
June 10
, 1929
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
E. O. Wilson
Nature
,
Spiritual
,
Aesthetic
,
Key
,
Our
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
Failure
,
Alone
,
Best
,
Path
,
World
,
You
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
,
Rich
,
World
,
Chaos
,
Back
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
,
Understand
,
Learn
,
Come
,
Use
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
E. O. Wilson
Nature
,
Bird
,
Tree
,
You
,
Seen
,
Ant
Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
E. O. Wilson
Organization
,
Earth
,
Complicated
,
Next
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
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
E. O. Wilson
Change
,
Die
,
Hard
,
Will
,
Old
,
False
America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
E. O. Wilson
World
,
America
,
Burden
,
Living
,
Cost
The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
E. O. Wilson
Education
,
Women
,
Best
,
Environment
,
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
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
,
Rest
,
Humanity
,
Land
,
Out
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
Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
E. O. Wilson
Life
,
Rest
,
Dead
,
Land
,
Ants
,
Them
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
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
E. O. Wilson
Science
,
Mind
,
Political
,
Corrupt
Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
E. O. Wilson
Loyalty
,
Care
,
Say
,
Nothing
,
Others
,
He
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
,
Character
,
Great
,
People
,
Quality
Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
E. O. Wilson
World
,
Ideas
,
Own
,
Real
,
Part
,
Emerge
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
Society
,
Group
,
Sin
,
Results
,
Virtue
I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
E. O. Wilson
Religion
,
Problems
,
Way
,
Create
,
See
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
,
Perception
,
Human
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
,
Variety
,
Planet
,
Genes
Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
E. O. Wilson
Sometimes
,
Wrong
,
Because
,
Profound
I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
E. O. Wilson
Love
,
People
,
Thinking
,
World
,
Enough
The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
E. O. Wilson
World
,
Back
,
Being
,
Ant
,
Noisy
,
Forth
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