Edward O. Wilson Quotes

A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.

And we really should be considering the moral implications of what we're doing. What kind of a species are we that we treat the rest of life so cheaply? There are those who think that's the destiny of...

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

The predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior. Mankind has produced 100,000 religions. It is an illusion to think that scientific humanism and learning will dispel r...

Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that...

They travel long distances to stroll along the seashore, for reasons they can't put into words.

There is no better high than discovery.

People would rather believe than know.

[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.

Real scientists do not take vacations. They take field trips...

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 c...

If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self...

I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.

The best way to live in this real world is to free ourselves of demons and tribal gods.