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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us. - Edward Wilson Quotes

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

American Scientist

The larger the pie, the greater number of possible slices big enough to sustain the lives of individual species. - Edward Wilson Quotes

The larger the pie, the greater number of possible slices big enough to sustain the lives of individual species.

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. - Edward Wilson Quotes

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.

American Scientist Information

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God? - Edward Wilson Quotes

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

American Scientist Evolution

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. - Edward Wilson Quotes

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

American Scientist Behavior

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong - Edward Wilson Quotes

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong

In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come. - Edward Wilson Quotes

In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.

The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbor a nonphysical mind. - Edward Wilson Quotes

The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be supposed to harbor a nonphysical mind.

Brain

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. - Edward Wilson Quotes

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

American Scientist

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. - Edward Wilson Quotes

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

American Scientist

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. - Edward Wilson Quotes

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

American Scientist Mankind

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. - Edward Wilson Quotes

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.

True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen by the individual, strong enough to endure through trials of solitude and adversity. The principles are fitted together into what we call integrity, literally the integrated self, wherein personal decisions feel good and true. Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. - Edward Wilson Quotes

True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen by the individual, strong enough to endure through trials of solitude and adversity. The principles are fitted together into what we call integrity, literally the integrated self, wherein personal decisions feel good and true. Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. - Edward Wilson Quotes

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

American Scientist Nature

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology. - Edward Wilson Quotes

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

American Scientist

If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together. - Edward Wilson Quotes

If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together.

Sex

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable. - Edward Wilson Quotes

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

American Scientist

Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . . Thanks to science and technology, access to factual information of all kinds is rising exponentially. - Edward Wilson Quotes

Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . . Thanks to science and technology, access to factual information of all kinds is rising exponentially.

Art

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science. - Edward Wilson Quotes

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

American Scientist Ideology

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies . . . I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions. - Edward Wilson Quotes

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies . . . I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

There is a hereditary selective advantage to membership in a powerful group united by devout belief and purpose. Even when individuals subordinate themselves and risk death in common cause, their genes are more likely to be transmitted to the next generation than are those of competing groups who lack equivalent resolve. - Edward Wilson Quotes

There is a hereditary selective advantage to membership in a powerful group united by devout belief and purpose. Even when individuals subordinate themselves and risk death in common cause, their genes are more likely to be transmitted to the next generation than are those of competing groups who lack equivalent resolve.

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

American Scientist

It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are. - Edward Wilson Quotes

It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

American Scientist Astronomy

There is no better high than discovery. - Edward Wilson Quotes

There is no better high than discovery.

American Scientist Discovery

Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false. - Edward Wilson Quotes

Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

American Scientist

Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built. - Edward Wilson Quotes

Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built.

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views? - Edward Wilson Quotes

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

American Scientist Truth

People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive. - Edward Wilson Quotes

People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.

American Scientist People

Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius. - Edward Wilson Quotes

Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.

To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution. - Edward Wilson Quotes

To genetic evolution, the human lineage has added the parallel track of cultural evolution.

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. - Edward Wilson Quotes

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

American Scientist Faith

Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart. - Edward Wilson Quotes

Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.

American Scientist Heart

When the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on? - Edward Wilson Quotes

When the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?

Mind

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. - Edward Wilson Quotes

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.

American Scientist Interest

Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself. - Edward Wilson Quotes

Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.

Earth

Human beings live -- literally live, as if life is equated with the mind -- by symbols, particularly words, because the brain is constructed to process information almost exclusively in their terms. - Edward Wilson Quotes

Human beings live -- literally live, as if life is equated with the mind -- by symbols, particularly words, because the brain is constructed to process information almost exclusively in their terms.

Life

Giants exist as a state of mind. They are defined not as an absolute measurement but as a proportionality. . . . So giants can be real, even if adults do not choose to classify them as such. - Edward Wilson Quotes

Giants exist as a state of mind. They are defined not as an absolute measurement but as a proportionality. . . . So giants can be real, even if adults do not choose to classify them as such.

Mind

[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. - Edward Wilson Quotes

[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life. - Edward Wilson Quotes

Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.

Most children have a bug period, and I never grew out of mine. - Edward Wilson Quotes

Most children have a bug period, and I never grew out of mine.

For every person in the world to reach the present U.S. level of consumption with existing technology would require four more planet earths. - Edward Wilson Quotes

For every person in the world to reach the present U.S. level of consumption with existing technology would require four more planet earths.

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, or any other great work of art. - Edward Wilson Quotes

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, or any other great work of art.

Human activity equals a decline of the rest of life on earth, - Edward Wilson Quotes

Human activity equals a decline of the rest of life on earth,

Earth is a little-known planet. We have little appreciation for what we're doing. ... We are flying blind, - Edward Wilson Quotes

Earth is a little-known planet. We have little appreciation for what we're doing. ... We are flying blind,

Colonies with lower relatedness among the workers often have higher growth and reproduction rates than those with higher relatedness, - Edward Wilson Quotes

Colonies with lower relatedness among the workers often have higher growth and reproduction rates than those with higher relatedness,

We propose this with great caution, ... The evidence, after all, only applies strongly to insects. Human altruism and tight-knit societies may well have evolved differently. But if it is true, it would help us understand the group aggression and warfare so widespread today. Those who study human biology and behavior should take a new look at this possibility. - Edward Wilson Quotes

We propose this with great caution, ... The evidence, after all, only applies strongly to insects. Human altruism and tight-knit societies may well have evolved differently. But if it is true, it would help us understand the group aggression and warfare so widespread today. Those who study human biology and behavior should take a new look at this possibility.

He was above all an observer of life Ã¢â¬â that's how I see Darwin. - Edward Wilson Quotes

He was above all an observer of life Ã¢â¬â that's how I see Darwin.

Life

The organism is only DNA's way of making more DNA. - Edward Wilson Quotes

The organism is only DNA's way of making more DNA.

[It is] surpassingly strange, ... put their common sense on hold. - Edward Wilson Quotes

[It is] surpassingly strange, ... put their common sense on hold.

I saw it as a splendid opportunity to trace his intellectual development, starting with the voyage aboard the Beagle, ... He hit upon natural selection at a fairly early stage and his life was really one long argument about the questions it raised. - Edward Wilson Quotes

I saw it as a splendid opportunity to trace his intellectual development, starting with the voyage aboard the Beagle, ... He hit upon natural selection at a fairly early stage and his life was really one long argument about the questions it raised.

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