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The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper
E. O. Wilson
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E. O. Wilson
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: June 10
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I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger: the little things that compose the foundation of our ecosystems, the little things, as I like to say, who run the world.
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Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.
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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in a cloud of molecules-it is a unique population.
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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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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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Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we've been around for only one million years--too soon be sure.
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In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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[W]hen 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?
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
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