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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
~ E. O. Wilson
Astronomy
Having
Knowing
Like
Stars
Where
Without
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It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
~ E. O. Wilson
Attempt
Better
Better Quality
Billion
Bring
Century
Coming
Entirely
Environment
Facing
How
Humanity
Key
Life
More
More People
Obvious
People
Problem
Quality
Quality Of Life
Without
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
~ E. O. Wilson
Aesthetic
Cognitive
Even
Holds
Intellectual
Key
Nature
Our
Satisfaction
Spiritual
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
~ E. O. Wilson
Across
Because
Beliefs
Change
Come
Die
Die Hard
Even
False
Generations
Hard
Old
Slowly
Will
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
~ E. O. Wilson
Alive
Another
Find
Form
However
Keep
Larger
Must
Narrative
Need
People
Purpose
Sacred
Sense
Spirits
Way
Will
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
~ E. O. Wilson
Activity
Calling
Cease
Come
Effort
Environmentalist
Human
Human Activity
Lobbying
Mainstream
Outside
Perhaps
Start
Though
Time
View
Were
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
~ E. O. Wilson
Corrupt
Ideology
Mind
Political
Political Ideology
Science
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Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
~ E. O. Wilson
Because
Concept
Profound
Sometimes
Wrong
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The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
~ E. O. Wilson
Accept
Another
Between
Contradictions
Dilemma
Discovered
Erase
Essence
Evolved
Genetically
Humanity
Resolve
Spiritual
Truth
Views
Way
World
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The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
~ E. O. Wilson
Broad
Circumstance
Continents
Flowering
Forests
Historical
Interest
Million
Million Years
Origins
Over
Parts
Plants
Rain
Since
Tropical
Years
Years Ago
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The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
~ E. O. Wilson
Believe
Biology
Did
Evolve
Evolved
Gods
Human
Human Mind
Mind
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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.
~ E. O. Wilson
Correct
Descendants
Destruction
Diversity
Folly
Forgive
Genetic
Going
Least
Likely
Loss
Millions
Millions Of Years
Natural
Now
Our
Process
Species
Take
Us
Will
Years
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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?
~ E. O. Wilson
Authors
Bible
Could
Evolution
God
Had
Important
Made
Missed
Most
Provision
Really
Revelation
The Most Important
Theology
Thoughts
Were
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There is no better high than discovery.
~ E. O. Wilson
Better
Discovery
High
Than
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To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.
~ E. O. Wilson
Both
Close
Confuse
Doors
Extent
Further
Inquiry
Likely
Philosophical
Positions
Us
Wrong
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
~ E. O. Wilson
Arises
Character
Deeper
Religion
Than
True
True Character
Well
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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.
~ E. O. Wilson
Able
About
Choices
Critically
Drowning
Henceforth
Important
Information
Make
People
Put
Right
Right Time
Run
Starving
Think
Time
Together
While
Will
Wisdom
Wisely
World
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
~ E. O. Wilson
Biodiversity
Come
Every
Humanity
Learn
Means
Preserve
Priceless
Scrap
Should
Understand
Use
While
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
~ E. O. Wilson
Ant
Bird
Seen
Them
Tree
You
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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.
~ E. O. Wilson
Because
Been
Blessed
Brilliant
Debt
Directions
Drove
Enemies
Energies
Great
I Can
Irony
Me
New
Owe
Say
Them
Trace
Without
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