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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

~E. O. Wilson

Topics: Because Been Blessed Brilliant Debt Directions Drove Enemies Energies Great Irony Me New Owe Say Them Trace Without I Can

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I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

~E. O. Wilson

Topics: Although American Badly Critical Environment Had Hope Importance Intrude Land Message Mind Natural Natural Environment Our Southerners Too Wildlife

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The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

~E. O. Wilson

Topics: Believe Biology Did Evolve Evolved Gods Human Human Mind Mind

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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.

~E. O. Wilson

Topics: About Ant Being Brain Even Fast Human Individual Kind Laboratory Learn Maze One-Half Rat Simple Size Though Use

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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

~E. O. Wilson

Topics: Across Because Beliefs Change Come Die Even False Generations Hard Old Slowly Will

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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

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Topics: Activity Calling Cease Come Effort Environmentalist Human Human Activity Lobbying Mainstream Outside Perhaps Real-World Start Though Time View Were

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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.

~E. O. Wilson

Topics: Alive Another Find Form However Keep Larger Must Narrative Need People Purpose Sacred Sense Spirits Way Will

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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.

~E. O. Wilson

Topics: Because Environment Living Really Sustains Us

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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.

~E. O. Wilson

Topics: About Almost Almost Nothing Ants Insects Know Make Make Up Millions Nothing Organisms Species Them Two-Thirds Up

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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They're the cemetery workers.

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Topics: Ants Cemetery Dominant Insects Make Make Up Me Much Predators Principal Quarter Tell Up Well Workers World You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: June 10th, 1929

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