1,070 Quotes by E. O. Wilson

If I could have rolled in some of the birdie putts early and not made the silly bogey from the fairway on 18, I could have something real special today. I'm still happy with what it is, though.

Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great benefit. We ignore and degrade it to our great peril.

It was a good win, the kind you hope to be able to build off.

No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call me, which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town.

We were never able to get that full momentum back and actually get ahead. They were able to get up on us and every time we tied it up they were able to turn it up a notch and we didn't match it.

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

At this point, I'm really not going to worry about it. The only thing I can do is go out and hit the ball and catch the ball and throw the ball. If something happens, it happens. I'll pack up and go.

I don't think there's any doubt that we see him as a top-four. He can't really do what he does and be successful in 10 or 11 minutes a game. But we have some veteran players already taking big minutes, so what we need is for him to gradually work his way in and find where he fits.

The owners panicked. They were afraid there might be a work stoppage. But we would've had 12 months to sit down and work a better deal out. With this deal, there's going to be half the clubs under water.