E. O. Wilson Quotes
The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
Quotes to Explore
-
Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I was a fine arts major in college, and a painter for many years. And I found that, like writing, art is very similar.
-
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.
-
Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
-
I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.
-
Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
-
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
-
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.
-
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
-
Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
-
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
-
Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
-
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.
-
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
-
A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
-
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
-
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.
-
Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.
-
In 1948 I entered the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, undecided between studies of chemistry and physics, but my first year convinced me that physics was more interesting to me.
-
I'm not a novelist, I'm a storyteller. There is no art in what I do, no mystique.
-
Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.
-
The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
