1,070 Quotes by E. O. Wilson

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    I couldn't hear anything because my ears had been blasted, ... I had temporary hearing loss. The tent was full of smoke and dust. Of course Jim was screaming in pain and bleeding. And I reached for my vest to throw over him to protect him from what else was going to happen.

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    The good thing is he's the only boy we lose, but he'll be extremely tough to replace.

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    The issue is whether to believe the owner has the means and the motivation to proceed with that work or not.

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    There have been quite a lot of developments since 1998 -- one of the most important has been the examination by an Israeli botanist of pollen taken from the cloth,

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    We're in a small market and we have worked really hard to keep this thing going. All I want is enough so I can hang onto the canoe.

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    Yes, the natural sciences are telling us a great deal about human origins, the origins of our species the origins of our minds; we're on our way to explaining a large part of it. I'll accept an answer provided only by such means as obtaining and exploring, analyzing and arguing over the evidence - not because of a scribe's myopic view of the subject written 500 years before the birth of Christ!

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    It was the first time in their lives that these Romanian women earned money for their work. And for us to be able to make that happen was amazing.

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    We remain committed to that business. We're committed to taking whatever steps are necessary to improving that business.

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