E. O. Wilson Quotes - Page 10

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• Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . . Thanks to science and technology, access to factual information of all kinds is rising exponentially.

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  Art, Technology, Humanity

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• Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.

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  Believe, Science, Emotional

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• Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

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  Organization, Earth, Next

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• Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.

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  Years, Humanity, Dollars

  "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" with Kim Lawton, www.pbs.org. November 17, 2006.

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• People yearn to be in one of the best--a combat marine regiment, an elite college, the executive committee of a company, a religious sect, a fraternity, a garden club--any collectivity that can be compared favorably with other, competing groups.

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  Religious, Marine, College

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• 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.

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  Views, Years, Alabama

  "Transcript of the complete E.O. Wilson interview". blog.cleveland.com. March 01, 2009.

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• On the lawn next to the sidewalk a fire ant colony is swarming. The ants are pouring out of a mound nest, here no more than an irregular pile of dirt partly flattened by the last pass of a lawnmower. Winged queens and males are taking off on their nuptial flight, protected by angry-looking workers that run up and down the grass blades and out onto the blistering-hot concrete of the sidewalk. The species is unmistakably Solenopsis geminata, the native fire ant.

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  Running, Queens, Fire

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• Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.

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  Culture, Human Nature, Deeper

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• People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

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  People, Nonfiction, Novel

  "EO Wilson: Our Greatest Biologist Writes A Novel, ‘Anthill’". Interview with Steve Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

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• Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

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  Brain, World, Maps

  "E.O. Wilson Is on Top of the World". Interview with Jill Neimark, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1998.

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• Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.

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  Frustration, Waste, Chaos

  "Letters to a Young Scientist". Book by E. O. Wilson, 2013.

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• It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in a cloud of molecules-it is a unique population.

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  Science, Unique, Clouds

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• I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.

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  Writing, Careers, Ideas

  "EO Wilson: Our Greatest Biologist Writes A Novel, ‘Anthill’ (INTERVIEW, EXCERPT)". Interview with Steve Ross, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

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• The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in perpetuity.

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  Nature, Commitment, Race

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• I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

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  Southern, Baptists, Adherence

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• 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.

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  Two, Funeral, Humanity

  "E.O. Wilson Is on Top of the World". Interview with Jill Neimark, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1998.

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• America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

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  America, World, Cost

  "Darwin's natural heir" by Ed Douglas, www.theguardian.com. February 16, 2001.

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• Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

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  Selfishness, Groups, Sin

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• Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do.

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  Common Sense, Intuition, Earth

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• That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart.

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  Evolution, Mystery, Calculus

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.76, Vintage

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• So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we've been around for only one million years--too soon be sure.

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  Successful, Years, Way

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• In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.

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  Science, Generations, Evolution

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• '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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  Book, Diversity, Earth

  "Transcript of the complete E.O. Wilson interview". blog.cleveland.com. March 01, 2009.

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• Search until you find a passion and go all out to excel in its expression.

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  Passion, Expression

  "'Search until you find a passion and go all out to excel in its expression'". Interview with Alvin Powell, news.harvard.edu. April 15, 2014.

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• The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

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  Earth, Juggernaut, Ancient

  "My wish: Build the Encyclopedia of Life". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March, 2007.

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