E O Wilson Quotes

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.
Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
There is no better high than discovery.
To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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.
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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.
All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.
America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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.
Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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.
Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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.
But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
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