E. O. Wilson Quotes
Genetic determinism... On its interpretation depends the entire relation between biology and the social sciences.
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I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.
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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.
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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.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man.
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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.
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I don't work with a stylist.
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It's terrifying, social media. It terrifies me.
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There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
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Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world, itself.
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Truth does not belong to an individual.
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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)
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The character and fight against fascism moved centre stage when, in 1936, Franco attempted to overthrow by force the Popular Front Government of Republican Spain.
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My fire is my gift and my curse. I harness it 95% of the time, but the 5% I don't, it works against me.
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Japanese maps tend to come in two varieties: small, schematic, and bewildering; and large, fantastically detailed, and bewildering.
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The only thing I have is instinct and intuition and just staying very, very connected to the moments and try to bring in what your gut is telling you.
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If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians.
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Genetic determinism... On its interpretation depends the entire relation between biology and the social sciences.
