19 Quotations by Edward O. Wilson
- 1. A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoid ...
- 2. Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnorma ...
- 3. Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
- 4. Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.
- 5. Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever ...
- 6. Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ...
- 7. I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said ...
- 8. It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better qua ...
- 9. No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psyc ...
- 10. People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, ho ...
- 11. Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the environmentalist view, as though it were a lobbyin ...
- 12. Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledg ...
- 13. Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
- 14. The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remain ...
- 15. The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and d ...
- 16. There is a hereditary selective advantage to membership in a powerful group united by devout belief ...
- 17. True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
- 18. Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great de ...
- 19. You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the b ...
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