E. O. Wilson Quotes

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was jus...

Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of reli...

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just...

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as tr...

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mos...

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoid...

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not pr...

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, a...

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the b...

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test ...

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and esp...

An ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a book-keeper.

Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever...

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. ...

The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and d...

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organizati...

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synth...

Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably fal...