E. O. Wilson Quotes
The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind. This is the cardinal tenet of scientific understanding. Our species and its ways of thinking are a product of evolution, not the purpose of evolution.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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For the most part, I don't have a Facebook page; I don't Twitter.
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The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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Wittiness turns me on more than anything else.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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I long for a South African society that's free of ideological forces - no society can ever really be free of ideological forces - but I wish it was free of power.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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I use loads of moisturising products and make sure I cleanse, tone and moisturise every day. It's just so important to always keep your skin moisturised.
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The day we run out of petrol is the day Iran will be free.
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We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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One time I got dressed in all black, Rambo-style, and took a massive pair of bolt-cutters and nicked a military bike.
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War is good when good survives and evil is crushed. If you don't crush evil then evil will get you.
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The irony is that what was supposed to be a great vulnerability of Hillary Clinton , which the Iraq war vote which she has acknowledged was a terrible mistake, has lent an aura of strength in a funny way.
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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
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India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.
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But my message to people with or without a condition is the fact that you can still do anything you set your mind to. You just have to do it in a slightly different way than other people.
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Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective reality.
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The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind. This is the cardinal tenet of scientific understanding. Our species and its ways of thinking are a product of evolution, not the purpose of evolution.
