E. O. Wilson
E. O. Wilson
Edward Osborne Wilson, usually cited as E. O. Wilson, is an American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalistand author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he is considered to be the world's leading expert...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth10 June 1929
CountryUnited States of America
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You would have to bring that up. But now that you mention it ...
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She's never going to be perfect. And neither are the men.
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The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it is slipping away. The way back seems harder every year. 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-understanding, through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations. And thus humanity closes the door on its past.
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When all else fails, men turn to reason.
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Man's destiny is to know, if only because societies with knowledge culturally dominate societies that lack it. Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not master the differential equations of thermodynamics or the biochemical cures of illness. They stay in thatched huts and die young.
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One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.
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The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
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There is a power so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive that prudent men better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it
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We've had games like this where they've been easy and we've had games that have been tough. This team, I'm not worried about them. Mentally they've risen to the occasion every time.
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Information overload can reduce a person's ability to focus as much as losing a night's sleep.
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In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, or any other great work of art.
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It's not a sport until it's in the Olympics.
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It's not as if this job isn't hard enough already.
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Everybody is so close, ... We're like a family. I hate it happened. We're still trying to pull everything together. The staff is deeply upset. We've scheduled counselors to help, and we're helping the families get loose ends tied up.