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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. WilsonE. O. Wilson 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. WilsonE. O. Wilson I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
E. O. WilsonE. O. Wilson Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
E. O. WilsonE. O. Wilson Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
E. O. WilsonE. O. Wilson Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
E. O. WilsonE. O. Wilson Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
E. O. WilsonE. O. Wilson Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
E. O. WilsonE. O. Wilson 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. WilsonE. O. Wilson 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. WilsonE. O. Wilson Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
E. O. WilsonE. O. Wilson People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
E. O. WilsonE. O. Wilson 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.
E. O. WilsonE. O. Wilson I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
E. O. WilsonE. O. Wilson By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
E. O. WilsonE. O. Wilson 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. WilsonE. O. Wilson
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