Quotes by : Edward O. Wilson

[S]elfish members win within groups, but groups of altruists best groups of selfish members. (63)

They travel long distances to stroll along the seashore, for reasons they can't put into words.

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....

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world....

Human beings appear to be sufficiently selfish and calculating to be capable of indefinitely greater....

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...