We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
E. O. WILSONDestroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
More E. O. Wilson Quotes
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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.
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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Willing 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.
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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.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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