1,070 Quotes by E. O. Wilson

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.

It’s the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.

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.

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.

We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.

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.

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.

I think we will make it. Because one quality people have – certainly Americans have it – is that they can adapt when they see necessity staring them in the face. What to avoid is what someone once called the definition of hell: truth realized too late.