E. O. Wilson Quotes
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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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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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The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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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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We are not compelled to believe in biological uniformity in order to affirm human freedom and dignity.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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In early history phobias might have provided the extra margin needed to insure survival...
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Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.
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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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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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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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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've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.
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I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
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Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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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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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.