1,070 Quotes by E. O. Wilson

[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].

This gives us a lot more confidence in knowing we can do things.

We are going to do what we have been doing all year. We are going to work hard in practice these next couple days. Then we will head East and see if we can't get a win.

The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under the care of its parents... But to what extent does the wiring of the neurons, so undeniably encoded in the genes, preordain the directions that social development will follow?

We are getting a good response so far for this being our first try at a craft show, and depending on the participation by vendors and attendance by the community. We would like to try to do this annually.

When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.

She would pull double shifts when we were short staffed. She took care of her patients. Never got a complaint on her. Never. Tommy was motivated. Anything he was needed to be done, he got it done.

It's a mess out there with health-insurance costs.

Most of the problems come from people who don't live in these areas.