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Would the humanities care to colonize the sciences? — Edward O. Wilson

[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 ... — Edward O. Wilson

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

Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species — 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

the biological mind is the essence and the very meaning of the human condition. — 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 — Edward O. Wilson

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

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand. — 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, — Edward O. Wilson

So what could the hypothetical aliens learn from us that has any value to them? The correct answer is the humanities. — Edward O. Wilson

Very often ambition and entrepreneurial drive, in combination, beat brilliance. — 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

What is man? Storyteller, mythmaker, and destroyer of the living world. Thinking — 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

[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

[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