E. O. Wilson Quotes
The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
Quotes to Explore
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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Science attempts to analyze how things and people and animals behave; it has no concern whether this behavior is good or bad, is purposeful or not. But religion is precisely the quest for such answers: whether an act is right or wrong, good or bad, and why.
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I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.
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I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
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A science is something which is constructed from truth on workable axioms. There are 55 axioms in scientology which are very demonstrably true, and on these can be constructed a great deal.
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I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.
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Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
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My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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I was eight years old when I knew I wanted to be an actress. I slowly started by getting into commercials, and then I was an extra on a TV show. And then the movies happened.
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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I was a good student with mathematical ability and interests. As such, I took the usual college preparatory program in high school for one looking to become an engineer: all the available courses in mathematics and science.
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It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.
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When I got enough confidence, the stage was gone. When I was sure of losing, I won. When I needed people the most, they left me. When I learnt to dry my tears, I found a shoulder to cry on. And when I mastered the art of hating, somebody started loving me.
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I want to be something so much worthier than the doll in the doll's house.
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When things are going well, something will go wrong. / When things just can't get any worse, they will. / Anytime things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
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The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
