1,070 Quotes by E. O. Wilson

I think that’s my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement.

The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth’s ancient biosphere.

It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

Theology made no provision for evolution.

The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.

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.

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god like technology.