Quotes by : Edward O. Wilson

Science, its imperfections notwithstanding, is the sword in the stone that humanity finally pulled. The....

People would rather believe than know.

Very often ambition and entrepreneurial drive, in combination, beat brilliance.

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that....

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 race is now on between the technoscientific and scientific forces that are destroying the living....

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

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