One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
E. O. WILSON By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was jus...
E. O. WILSON The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority ...
E. O. WILSON Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not pr...
E. O. WILSON Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were...
E. O. WILSON The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and ...
E. O. WILSON Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contes...
E. O. WILSON The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
E. O. WILSON If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mos...
E. O. WILSON I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
E. O. WILSON There is no better high than discovery.
E. O. WILSON Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.
E. O. WILSON We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synth...
E. O. WILSON So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was ...
E. O. WILSON I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
E. O. WILSON In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was th...
E. O. WILSON Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, a...
E. O. WILSON Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
E. O. WILSON We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to und...
E. O. WILSON It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. T...
E. O. WILSON Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon,...
E. O. WILSON If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium t...
E. O. WILSON Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. WILSON You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the b...
E. O. WILSON Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test ...
E. O. WILSON I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a dee...
E. O. WILSON Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelat...
E. O. WILSON All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.
E. O. WILSON Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
E. O. WILSON The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from th...
E. O. WILSON It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better...
E. O. WILSON Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost al...
E. O. WILSON Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the bioma...
E. O. WILSON Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organism...
E. O. WILSON In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ec...
E. O. WILSON The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
E. O. WILSON Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
E. O. WILSON The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
E. O. WILSON An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, ca...
E. O. WILSON When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
E. O. WILSON People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, ho...
E. O. WILSON Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever...
E. O. WILSON Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, will...
E. O. WILSON Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immedi...
E. O. WILSON The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth a...
E. O. WILSON I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're commu...
E. O. WILSON Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably fal...
E. O. WILSON Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great de...
E. O. WILSON The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad ...
E. O. WILSON If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. ...
E. O. WILSON I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quit...
E. O. WILSON What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is ...
E. O. WILSON The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the re...
E. O. WILSON I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and...
E. O. WILSON Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to sa...
E. O. WILSON To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they ...
E. O. WILSON In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in ...
E. O. WILSON What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology ...
E. O. WILSON America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of ...
E. O. WILSON Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the t...
E. O. WILSON Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of reli...
E. O. WILSON Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form triba...
E. O. WILSON I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in lo...
E. O. WILSON A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoid...
E. O. WILSON Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
E. O. WILSON True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
E. O. WILSON We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain ...
E. O. WILSON In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
E. O. WILSON Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially d...
E. O. WILSON Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
E. O. WILSON Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up ...
E. O. WILSON I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the ...
E. O. WILSON It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
E. O. WILSON I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
E. O. WILSON For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organizati...
E. O. WILSON It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
E. O. WILSON In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.
E. O. WILSON But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving an...
E. O. WILSON 'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the bo...
E. O. WILSON People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
E. O. WILSON It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species ...
E. O. WILSON Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
E. O. WILSON When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plant...
E. O. WILSON We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It&#...
E. O. WILSON We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we ...
E. O. WILSON The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy ar...
E. O. WILSON Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
E. O. WILSON There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
E. O. WILSON The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
E. O. WILSON I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said...
EDWARD O. WILSON It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
EDWARD O. WILSON Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong
EDWARD O. WILSON In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravag...
EDWARD O. WILSON A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoid...
EDWARD O. WILSON The larger the pie, the greater number of possible slices big enough to sustain the lives of individ...
EDWARD O. WILSON Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelat...
EDWARD O. WILSON You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the b...
EDWARD O. WILSON Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnorma...
EDWARD O. WILSON Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies . . . I owe them a gre...
EDWARD O. WILSON Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
EDWARD O. WILSON Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledg...
EDWARD O. WILSON If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically...
EDWARD O. WILSON Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
EDWARD O. WILSON It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better qua...
EDWARD O. WILSON We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synth...
EDWARD O. WILSON I saw it as a splendid opportunity to trace his intellectual development, starting with the voyage a...
EDWARD O. WILSON I am an optimist by nature. But I have to admit, it's getting kind of scary.
EDWARD O. WILSON Earth is a little-known planet. We have little appreciation for what we're doing. ... We are flying ...
EDWARD O. WILSON We propose this with great caution, ... The evidence, after all, only applies strongly to insects. H...
EDWARD O. WILSON For every person in the world to reach the present U.S. level of consumption with existing technolog...
EDWARD O. WILSON [It is] surpassingly strange, ... put their common sense on hold.
EDWARD O. WILSON The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remain...
EDWARD O. WILSON When the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegr...
EDWARD O. WILSON Giants exist as a state of mind. They are defined not as an absolute measurement but as a proportion...
EDWARD O. WILSON Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them...
EDWARD O. WILSON Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobby...
EDWARD O. WILSON There is no better high than discovery.
EDWARD O. WILSON Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify...
EDWARD O. WILSON People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, ho...
EDWARD O. WILSON To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.
EDWARD O. WILSON When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
EDWARD O. WILSON In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now livi...
EDWARD O. WILSON True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principle...
EDWARD O. WILSON The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
EDWARD O. WILSON If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. ...
EDWARD O. WILSON People would rather believe than know.
EDWARD O. WILSON All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among th...
EDWARD O. WILSON A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.
EDWARD O. WILSON The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard o...
EDWARD O. WILSON Would I be happy if I discovered that I could go to heaven forever? And the answer is no. Consider t...
EDWARD O. WILSON Human activity equals a decline of the rest of life on earth,
EDWARD O. WILSON Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species
EDWARD O. WILSON The organism is only DNA's way of making more DNA.
EDWARD O. WILSON If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium t...
EDWARD O. WILSON Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
EDWARD O. WILSON The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad ...
EDWARD O. WILSON The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and d...
EDWARD O. WILSON One planet, one experiment.
EDWARD O. WILSON Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobby...
EDWARD O. WILSON There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.
CHARLES E. WILSON What's good for the country is good for General Motors, and vice versa.
CHARLES E. WILSON The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal badly ...
CHARLES E. WILSON A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-livin...
CHARLES E. WILSON No one should suffer from the great delusion that any form of communism or socialism which promotes ...
CHARLES E. WILSON Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth a...
CHARLES E. WILSON Many people do not realize that where unions have bargaining rights employers cannot raise wages or ...
CHARLES E. WILSON Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage ...
CHARLES E. WILSON The only sound approach to collective bargaining is to work out an agreement that clarifies the righ...
CHARLES E. WILSON For more than 150 years free men in our countries have had the opportunities to educate themselves, ...
CHARLES E. WILSON Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.
CHARLES E. WILSON Our expanding Canadian operations are concrete evidence of General Motors confidence in Canada.
CHARLES E. WILSON The prices of raw materials do not fluctuate directly with the labour cost of producing them.
CHARLES E. WILSON No plan can prevent a stupid person from doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time ...
CHARLES E. WILSON There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.
CHARLES E. WILSON Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has es...
CHARLES E. WILSON Furthermore, there is no good ethical or economic reason for asking workmen and current producers to...
CHARLES E. WILSON That it is logical, fair and reasonable to maintain the purchasing power of an hour's work in te...
CHARLES E. WILSON If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard...
CHARLES E. WILSON That the way to achieve higher standards of living for all is through science and technology, taking...
CHARLES E. WILSON There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and whe...
CHARLES E. WILSON Costs of manufactured articles importantly depend on the cost of raw materials as well as labour.
CHARLES E. WILSON Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experien...
CHARLES E. WILSON No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under...
CHARLES E. WILSON That co-operation and peace rather than industrial strife and strikes will best promote the prosperi...
CHARLES E. WILSON In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of...
CHARLES E. WILSON The thing that contributes to anyone's reaching the goal he wants is simple wanting that goal ba...
CHARLES E. WILSON Love is the agreement between the mind and the heart
WILSON E. VILLADELGADO JR. Don't get something that will satisfy you for a moment, Do something that will make you happy for a ...
WILSON E. VILLADELGADO JR. Success starts with the right mindset, not with the right situation.
WILSON E. VILLADELGADO JR. Knowledge cannot be measured; it can be seen with hardwork
WILSON E. VILLADELGADO JR. If there is one thing I can promise, that I can guarantee, it is not that I can protect my other all...
HANNAH E. O'NEAL I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
E. E. CUMMINGS Nothing recedes like progress.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more...
E. E. CUMMINGS Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.
E. E. CUMMINGS I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
E. E. CUMMINGS At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.
E. E. CUMMINGS I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
E. E. CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E. E. CUMMINGS Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes three to make a child.
E. E. CUMMINGS The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
E. E. CUMMINGS Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
E. E. CUMMINGS Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.
E. E. CUMMINGS Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. When the judgement day comes, God w...
E E CUMMINGS Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
E E CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.
E E CUMMINGS He without fear is king of the world.
E. E. EDDISON America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't whi...
E E CUMMINGS Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
E. E. CUMMINGS It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
E. E. CUMMINGS Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
E. E. CUMMINGS America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: Amer...
E. E. CUMMINGS Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS