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. WILSONWhat’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
More E. O. Wilson Quotes
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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.
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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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