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E. O. Wilson
E. O. Wilson
American Scientist
Born: Jun 10, 1929
Ants Life People Will World You
Related authors: Ben Carson Carl Sagan George Washington Carver Isaac Asimov Margaret Mead Neil deGrasse Tyson Sylvia Earle W. Edwards Deming
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. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. E. O. Wilson
Alone Best Needs Failure You World Path Aim Aim High Honorably Strive High Give Seems More Know However Goal Times Persist Than Behave Endure Capable Hard Choose Prepare Right
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. 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. E. O. Wilson
Wisdom Time Together People World Will Important Think Starving Right Time Run Critically Able About Put Wisely Drowning Make Information While Choices Henceforth Right
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. E. O. Wilson
Environmental World Insects Rich State Back Chaos Collapse Thousand Would Thousand Years Vanish Ten Disappear Environment Equilibrium Were Years Years Ago Existed Mankind
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. E. O. Wilson
Environmental Meal Painting Destroying Economic Like Renaissance Burning Gain Cook
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. E. O. Wilson
You Bird Seen Tree Ant Them
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us. E. O. Wilson
Natural Destruction Will Diversity Our Correct Folly Habitats Take Genetic Likely Least Years Loss Forgive Going Process Us Descendants Now Species Millions Millions Of Years
The education of women is the best way to save the environment. E. O. Wilson
Education Best Women Way Best Way Environment Save
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. E. O. Wilson
Faith Science Matter Will Every Assumption Relentlessly About Part Blind Blind Faith How Test Passionately Condition Human Human Condition Expressed Suffice
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. E. O. Wilson
Time Lobbying Though Outside Mainstream Environmentalist Come Perhaps Calling Were Cease Effort Human Human Activity View Activity Start
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science. E. O. Wilson
Science Political Mind Ideology Corrupt Political Ideology
A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. E. O. Wilson
Environmental Behavior Our Ourselves Corrosive Unavoidable Economic Risky Economic Growth Price Take New Accept Stock Very Whether Ethic Us Choice Search Population Growth
I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character. E. O. Wilson
Saying Good Great Character You Quality People Great Deal Circumstance Tells About Only Content Deal How Dialect Dialogue Communicating Found Tone
I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it. E. O. Wilson
Love Natural People World Doubt Thinking Enough Most Short-Term Natural World Save
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive. E. O. Wilson
Religion Science World Odds Having Powerful Most Most Powerful Forces Them Productive Two
The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. E. O. Wilson
Mind Believe Biology Evolve Evolved Did Gods Human Human Mind
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity. E. O. Wilson
Life Religion Humanity Perception Islam Evolutionary Supernatural Over Qualities Traditional Southern Southern Baptist Any Human Different Baptist Whether Radically Human Qualities Believes Biological
Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine. E. O. Wilson
Every Mine Kid Out Never Period Bug Grew
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. E. O. Wilson
Challenges Situation Economic Economic Situation Major Majority Improve Century Much Planet Two Save
But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture. E. O. Wilson
Music Culture Important Stage Dancing Musical Able Join Could Ritual Feel Along Important Role Been Very Role Human Being Activity Necessary Early
It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships. E. O. Wilson
Great Survival People Value Superior Believe Relationships Tribe Always Been Human Just Human Relationships Belong
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
Life Alone Humanity Insects Rest Few Months Out Would Wipe Disappear Mostly Within Were Land Planet
Because the living environment is what really sustains us. E. O. Wilson
Living Environment Because Sustains Us Really
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth. E. O. Wilson
Truth History Science Passion Same Taught Anything Us Desire
The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth. E. O. Wilson
World Back Noisy Passed Ant Being Tumult Forth
In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. E. O. Wilson
Would Would-Be Take Partial Environments Ecosystems Ants Land Many Away
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
Insects Nothing About Almost Almost Nothing Know Make Make Up Up Ants Them Organisms Species Millions Two-Thirds
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