E. O. Wilson Quotes
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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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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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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There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.
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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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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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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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I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
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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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Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.
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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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The borderline between normal and schizophrenic people is broad and nearly imperceptible.
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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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I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
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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.