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Letter "E" » Edward O. 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.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
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descendants, diversity, genetic, habitat, habitats, natural process
«The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.»
«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.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
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«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.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
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access, comprise, comprises, comprising, exponentially, factual, marginal, repertories, repertory, scientific knowledge
«Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.»
«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.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
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blessed with, directions, drove, energies, irony, redouble, redoubled, redoubling, trace
«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.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
| Keywords:
cause of death, common cause, competing, devout, equivalent, gene, genes, groups, hereditary, in common, membership, selective, subordinate, subordinates, subordinating, The Next Generation, transmitted
«It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
| About:
Astronomy
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