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Quotes by E O Wilson
- I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.
- I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
- I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.
- 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.
- If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
- 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.
- 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.
- In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.
- Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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