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Would the humanities care to colonize the sciences?
— Edward O. Wilson
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[S]elfish members win within groups, but groups of altruists best groups of selfish members. (63)
— Edward O. Wilson
The origin of modern humanity was a stroke of luck - good for our species for a while, bad for most of the rest of life forever. All
— Edward O. Wilson
A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.
— Edward O. Wilson
In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.
— Edward O. Wilson
Real scientists do not take vacations. They take field trips ...
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The best way to live in this real world is to free ourselves of demons and tribal gods.
— Edward O. Wilson
A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)
— Edward O. Wilson
The human impact on biodiversity, to put the matter as briefly as possible, is an attack on ourselves.
— Edward O. Wilson
One planet, one experiment.
— Edward O. Wilson
Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
— Edward O. Wilson
phenotypic plasticity,
— Edward O. Wilson
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
— Edward O. Wilson
I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.
— Edward O. Wilson
People would rather believe than know.
— Edward O. Wilson
We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity in order to affirm freedom and dignity
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Animals of the land environment are dominated by species with the most complex social systems.
— Edward O. Wilson
The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
— Edward O. Wilson
The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism.
— Edward O. Wilson
Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.
— Edward O. Wilson
We are chemosensory idiots. By comparison most other organisms are geniuses.
— Edward O. Wilson
Human beings were made for music. Its thrill and rapture are picked up almost immediately by little children
— Edward O. Wilson
There is no better high than discovery.
— Edward O. Wilson
Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.
— Edward O. Wilson
Socialism really works under some circumstances. Karl Marx just had the wrong species.
— Edward O. Wilson
Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.
— Edward O. Wilson
HISTORY IS A bath of blood," wrote William James,
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So what could the hypothetical aliens learn from us that has any value to them? The correct answer is the humanities.
— Edward O. Wilson
To get hold of the human condition, we need next a much broader definition of history than is conventionally used.
— Edward O. Wilson
Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.
— Edward O. Wilson
A spider spinning its web intends, whether conscious of the outcome or not, to catch a fly. That is the meaning of the web.
— Edward O. Wilson
except for behaving like apes much of the time and suffering genetically limited life spans, we are godlike.
— Edward O. Wilson
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
— Edward O. Wilson
We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology.
— Edward O. Wilson
All of the species that have attained eusociality, as I have stressed, live in fortified nest sites.
— Edward O. Wilson
Soccer moms are the enemy of natural history and the full development of a child.
— Edward O. Wilson
The human condition is a singularity,
— Edward O. Wilson
The creation myth is a Darwinian device for survival.
— Edward O. Wilson
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[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
— Edward O. Wilson
They travel long distances to stroll along the seashore, for reasons they can't put into words.
— Edward O. Wilson
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[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.
— Edward O. Wilson
Where do we come from?" "What are we?""Where are we going?
— Paul Gauguin
Are human beings intrinsically good but corruptible by the forces of evil, or the reverse, innately sinful yet redeemable by the forces of good?
— Edward O. Wilson
Preferring a search for objective reality over revelation is another way of satisfying religious hunger.
— Edward O. Wilson
The greater problems of history are not solved; they are merely forgotten.
— Edward O. Wilson