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Edward O. Wilson - From the Ability category:
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. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Ambition category:
Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Belief category:
Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Books category:
People respect nonfiction but they read novels. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Character category:
True character arises from a deeper well than religion. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Children category:
Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind descends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Competition category:
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Complexity category:
The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Critics category:
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. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Discovery category:
There is no better high than discovery. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Earth category:
One planet, one experiment. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Environment category:
Because the living environment is what really sustains us. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Evolution category:
Theology made no provision for evolution. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Experiments category:
Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Freedom category:
- The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth...
We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world of our millennial ancestors. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Humanity category:
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Ideas category:
Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Information category:
In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, or any other great work of art. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Information category:
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. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Money category:
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Music category:
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. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Nature category:
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Patriotism category:
In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Purpose category:
People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized... (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Religion category:
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hardwired to form tribalistic religions. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Truth category:
The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. (Edward O. Wilson)
Edward O. Wilson - From the Writing category:
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer. (Edward O. Wilson)
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