1,070 Quotes by E. O. Wilson

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    [T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy personal psychological needs... but lack the ideas or the means to contribute to the technical base.

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    I'm disappointed with the whole season, the whole season and I'm going to address it. I'm not just going to say, 'Gee I hope we get better next year.' We're going to change the structure.

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    In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.

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    I am really pleased with that. My lap times have improved by over half a second since qualifying and I have scored two points finishes.

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    It is increasingly clear that the intelligence and the facts were indeed fixed around the policy, and we sent our troops to war under dubious pretenses,

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    The question becomes, well, where do you get the product to fill the pipeline, ... The system was basically running full out before the storm to supply the market and now we've lost nearly 10 percent of the (U.S.) refining capacity.

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