E. O. Wilson Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old E. O. Wilson quotes, E. O. Wilson sayings, and E. O. Wilson proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. E. O. Wilson
Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world. E. O. Wilson
There is no better high than discovery. E. O. Wilson
Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans. E. O. Wilson
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals. E. O. Wilson
Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius. E. O. Wilson
Theology made no provision for evolution. E. O. Wilson
To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively. E. O. Wilson
The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched. E. O. Wilson
The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science. E. O. Wilson
The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and place, so that life around him presses in on all the senses and small details grow in significance. He begins the scanning search for which cognition was engineered. His mind becomes unfocused, it focuses on everything, no longer directed toward any ordinary task or social pleasantry. E. O. Wilson
Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass. E. O. Wilson
Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius. E. O. Wilson
One planet, one experiment. E. O. Wilson
This planet can be a paradise in the 22nd century. E. O. Wilson
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. E. O. Wilson
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. E. O. Wilson
The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic. E. O. Wilson
I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution. E. O. Wilson
If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months. E. O. Wilson
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity. E. O. Wilson
Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great benefit. We ignore and degrade it to our great peril. E. O. Wilson
Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity? E. O. Wilson
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science. E. O. Wilson
Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. E. O. Wilson
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. E. O. Wilson
We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god like technology. E. O. Wilson
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. E. O. Wilson