E. O. Wilson Quotes
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The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.
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It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
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Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.
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There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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In early history phobias might have provided the extra margin needed to insure survival...
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The genius of human society is in fact the ease with which alliances are formed, broken, and reconstituted, always with strong emotional appeals to rules believed to be absolute.
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Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
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Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
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The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us.
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The borderline between normal and schizophrenic people is broad and nearly imperceptible.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there is any moral precept shared by people of all beliefs, it is that we owe ourselves and future generations a beautiful, rich, and healthful environment.
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I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.