E O Wilson Quotes

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.
It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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.
Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.
People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution.
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.
So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.
The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
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.
'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
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