E. O. 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 th...”
• “The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. I...”
• “We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able...”
• “If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative...”
• “A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of popula...”
• “Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every a...”
• “Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakn...”
• “I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more hones...”
• “If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from t...”
• “Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by toler...”
• “Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of ...”
• “Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.”
• “By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.”
• “Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.”
• “Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.”
• “When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.”
• “Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.”