black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an

Related Topics

Duty Ethic Inoculum Loyalty Mean Military Old School Some Some Way South Spent Time Today: Honor Traditional Upbringing

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
E. O. WILSON

Drown Information Starve Wisdom
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
E. O. WILSON

Corrupt Ideology Mind Political Science
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

Being Brain Even Human Individual Laboratory Maze Millionth Rat Simple Size Thought Use
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
E. O. WILSON

Course Evolution Human Mind Nature Original Reconciliation Religious Selection Theory Traditional View
Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
E. O. WILSON

Brain Constant Distrore Immediate Input Map Often Sensory World
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

Alone Disspaer Humanity Insect Land Life Mist Out Planet Rest Wipe
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

All Ant Biomass Insect Make Third Two
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
E. O. WILSON

Belief Competing Essential Evolve Group Illogic Religion Selection Strength Weakness
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.
E. O. WILSON

Atmosphere Better Democratic End Principle Product Win
The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
E. O. WILSON

Around Depend Energy Fungal Major Material Olayerm Cycle World
This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
E. O. WILSON

Descendant Folly Forgive Least Likely Our
We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
E. O. WILSON

Decide Decommissioned Deep Look Must Natural Ourselves Selection Wish
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

Attempt Better Bring Century Come Entirely Environment Face Humanity Key Obvious Problem Quality Wrecking
Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
E. O. WILSON

Assumption Condition Human Part Relentless Science Test
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

Ant Biomass Cemetery Dominant Inspect Make Myuchm Quater Predators Principal Tell Well Worker
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
E. O. WILSON

Among Conflict Consequence Creation Ought People Difference Recognize Story Strife

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes

Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'imagick.so' (tried: /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so (/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20200930/imagick.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0