Quotes by : Edward O. Wilson

People would rather believe than know.

Human beings were made for music. Its thrill and rapture are picked up almost immediately by little children....

All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the....

If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in....

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

The predisposition to religious belief is an ineradicable part of human behavior. Mankind has produced....

Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. A sharp sense of empathy can make a huge....

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

Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are....

We are a biological species arising from Earth’s biosphere as one adapted species among many; and however....