1,070 Quotes by E. O. Wilson

There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.

So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we’ve been around for only one million years – too soon be sure.

Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe – known, that is, to itself.

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I’m a Southerner.

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.

Once I feel I’m right, I have enjoyed provoking.

And pigs may fly. And we may be able to terraform and send surface populations to Mars. And Jesus may come next week anyway, so it doesn’t matter one way or the other. All these crazy things run through people’s minds.

The commitment must be much deeper – to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in perpetuity.

In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity – and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the importance of its solution.