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• To a considerable degree science consists in originating the maximum amount of information with the minimum expenditure of energy.

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• Important science is not just any similarity glimpsed for the first time. It offers analogies that map the gateways to unexplored terrain.

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• It came by a lightning flash like knowledge from the gods.

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• I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.

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• You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

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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.

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• When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.

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• We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

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• We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.

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• True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

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• To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

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• There is no better high than discovery.

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• Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

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• The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

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

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• The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

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• The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

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• Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

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• Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

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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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Birth:	10th June, 1929
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Biologist, Naturalist, Researcher, Theorist

About

Edward Osborne Wilson was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He is an American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he is considered to be the world's leading expert. He is the Pellegrino University Research Professor, Emeritus in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and a New York Times bestseller for The Social Conquest of Earth, Letters to a Young Scientist, and The Meaning of Human Existence. He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in biology in 1950. In 1955, he received his Ph.D.

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