E. O. Wilson Quotes

To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.

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• It is a growing process. You can't just like beer. You have to start somewhere and learn the different flavors.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • Growing
  • Start

• But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Life
  • Art
  • My Life

• I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Life
  • Different
  • Think

• Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • Why
  • Night

• I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Lawyer

• Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Done
  • Remember
  • Body

• Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Today
  • Service
  • Insurance

• I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Go

• Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Different
  • Character
  • Experience

• China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Opportunity
  • Community

• The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Now
  • Surprise
  • France

• The best way to cope with trouble is to stay out of it as much as possible.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Best
  • Trouble
  • Possible

• My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Parents
  • Brother
  • Lawyer

• I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Like
  • Strange
  • Drink

• My job is making money, helping other people make money. I am spending money, trying to make sure more people get rich, because you cannot spend a lot of money, right? So my job is spending money, helping others. This is a headache.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Trying
  • Money

• As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Start

• My dad doesn't hug me enough!

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Me
  • Dad
  • Enough

• I wanna meet the person who wrote the Burlington Coat Factory thing, but that's cool. I would love to understand it more, but everything is good.

  

  Wale
  • Good
  • Cool

• With any job the main thing that makes the job is the people.

  

  Nell Hudson
  • People
  • Job
  • Jobs

• One afternoon, on my way to the campus - I was majoring in political science at Nairobi University - a photographer by the name of Peter Beard stopped me in the street and asked me if I'd ever been photographed.

  

  Iman
  • Science
  • Political
  • Name

• Imagination comes of not having things.

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Imagination

• I think you know that I classify science as British science, American science, and everybody else.

  

  Martin Fleischmann
  • American
  • Science

• To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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