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" What's been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts. "
E. O. Wilson
Research
Enough
Long
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" When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. "
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Tree
" One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period. "
E. O. Wilson
Bug
Grow
Grow Up
" Real biologists who actually do the research will tell you that they almost never find a phenomenon, no matter how odd or irrelevant it looks when they first see it, that doesn't prove to serve a function. The outcome itself may be due to small accidents of evolution. "
E. O. Wilson
Research
Small
You
" I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character. "
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Character
Good
Great
" Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God? "
E. O. Wilson
Important
God
Thoughts
" People respect nonfiction but they read novels. "
E. O. Wilson
Read
Respect
People
" I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind. "
E. O. Wilson
Always
Mind
Career
" I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching. "
E. O. Wilson
Deep
Ethics
Generosity
" What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species. "
E. O. Wilson
Page
Need
Everything
" I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution. "
E. O. Wilson
Evolution
Believe
Religious
" Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength. "
E. O. Wilson
Strength
Weakness
Tribe
" I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it. "
E. O. Wilson
School
Love
High School
" The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world. "
E. O. Wilson
Players
Energy
Cycling
" The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us. "
E. O. Wilson
Now
Diversity
Loss
" 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
Rest
Life
Land
" For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization. "
E. O. Wilson
Level
Faith
Organization
" Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years. "
E. O. Wilson
Great
More
Over
" Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine. "
E. O. Wilson
Bug
Period
Mine
" It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt. "
E. O. Wilson
Humanity
Life
People
" I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect. "
E. O. Wilson
Respect
Thought
Intelligent
" Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view. "
E. O. Wilson
View
Start
Human
" We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become. "
E. O. Wilson
Look
Deep
Become
" We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories. "
E. O. Wilson
Differences
Stories
People
" We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there. "
E. O. Wilson
Need
Animal
Earth
" You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. "
E. O. Wilson
World
Alone
Best
" I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster. "
E. O. Wilson
Bible
Up
Strict
" Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them. "
E. O. Wilson
Life
Rest
Ants
" Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction. "
E. O. Wilson
Spiritual
Even
Nature
" In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty. "
E. O. Wilson
School
Honor
Loyalty
" All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments. "
E. O. Wilson
Religions
Disturbed
Born