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, 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, Best, Path, Alone, 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, World, Chaos, Rich, Back

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

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, Should

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

Environmental, Painting, Meal, Cook

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

Organization, Earth, Complicated, Next

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, Hard, Old, False

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

World, Me, You, Principal, Insects, Tell

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

Simple, Brain, Learn, Fast, Individual

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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

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, Insects, Ants, Up, Almost

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, Better, Humanity

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

Rain, Animal, Plant, Living, Earth, Need

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

World, Energy, Because, Cycling, Players

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, Plants, Years, Forests, Historical

People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive. E. O. Wilson

People, Purpose, Way, Find, Alive, Need

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

Great, World, Impact, Land, Years, Over

All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments. E. O. Wilson

Born, Three, Religions, Disturbed, Were

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

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, World

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, Rest, Humanity, Land, Out

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, Irony, Debt, Say

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

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, Perception, Humanity

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