Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
E. O. WILSONPeople respect nonfiction but they read novels.
More E. O. Wilson Quotes
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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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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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 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?
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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