E. O. Wilson Quotes

The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having arboreta where we have trees, all these things have been promoted. Even getting the complete genetic code of various fishes so we can let them pass away and then we'll pull them back. That is science fiction run amok.

E. O. Wilson

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• One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

  

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• The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.

  

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• The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.

  

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• My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.

  

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• When I joined Small Faces, we occasionally would bump into The Who. And Keith Moon and I became firm pals.

  

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• Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.

  

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• Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'

  

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• I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
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• I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.

  

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• I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.

  

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• I used to always buy clothes too big, but I should have showed off instead of covering up.

  

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• I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.

  

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• I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.

  

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• A man is as alive as he can communicate.

  

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• You were born as the one you are.

  

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• I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

  

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• If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

  

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• I hesitate to predict whether this theory is true. But if the general opinion of Mankind is optimistic then we're in for a period of extreme popularity for science fiction.

  

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• I realized that I was African when I came to the United States. Whenever Africa came up in my college classes, everyone turned to me. It didn't matter whether the subject was Namibia or Egypt; I was expected to know, to explain.

  

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• The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having arboreta where we have trees, all these things have been promoted. Even getting the complete genetic code of various fishes so we can let them pass away and then we'll pull them back. That is science fiction run amok.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science