E. O. Wilson Quotes

Genetic determinism... On its interpretation depends the entire relation between biology and the social sciences.

E. O. Wilson

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• I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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• I look at my people, and I look at those who control them - the political elite. And the sad thing is that the elites are just not interested in the welfare of the people.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • People
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• Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Science
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  • Doors

• I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds, choir sounds, and then you can multi-task with all these orchestral sounds. Through the magic medium of technology, I can play all kinds of sounds - double bass and stuff.

  

  Bat for Lashes
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• Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
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• I think it's unfortunate when people say that there is just one true story of science. For one thing, there are many different sciences, and historians will tell different stories corresponding to different things.

  

  Ian Hacking
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• The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.

  

  Ted Turner
  • People
  • World
  • Want

• One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.

  

  Bear Grylls
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• I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.

  

  Tatjana Patitz
  • Loved
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• I never grew up seeing women that looked like me in magazines or on TV and didn't feel like I had a place in the world of fashion. I am honoured to be part of that change.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
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• I don't work with a stylist.

  

  Taylor Momsen
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• It's terrifying, social media. It terrifies me.

  

  Faye Marsay
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• There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Earth
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• Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world, itself.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • World
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• Truth does not belong to an individual.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
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• Agathon: One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace. (tr. Athen. 1912, vol. 2, p. 278) (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)

  

  Aristophanes
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• In both quantum theory and general relativity, we encounter predictions of physically sensible quantities becoming infinite. This is likely the way that nature punishes impudent theorists who dare to break her unity. ...If infinities are signs of missing unification, a unified theory will have none. It will be what we call a finite theory.

  

  Lee Smolin
  • Nature
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• Time flies when you are anxious!

  

  Maria Bamford
  • Time

• There have indeed been civilizations upon your planet that understood as well as you, and without your

  

  Jane Roberts

• I don't think much. I'm just going to keep doing what I've been doing. Adjust on the fly if I have to.

  

  Drew Pomeranz
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• If you never assume importance, you never lose it.

  

  Lao Tzu
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• The best people I know have had a lot of obstacles to overcome.

  

  Jayne Meadows
  • People
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• Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure id made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
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• Genetic determinism... On its interpretation depends the entire relation between biology and the social sciences.

  

  E. O. Wilson