Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. WILSONScience for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. WILSONReligious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
E. O. WILSONBlind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
E. O. WILSONIt’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
E. O. WILSONPeople respect nonfiction but they read novels.
E. O. WILSONIf insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
E. O. WILSONEvery kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
E. O. WILSONWilling 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. WILSONTheology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
E. O. WILSONThe 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. WILSONIdeas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
E. O. WILSONWe are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
E. O. WILSONPersist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. WILSONAnts are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
E. O. WILSONIn many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
E. O. WILSONThe 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.
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