E. O. Wilson
E. O. Wilson
Edward Osborne Wilson, usually cited as E. O. Wilson, is an American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalistand author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he is considered to be the world's leading expert...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth10 June 1929
CountryUnited States of America
motivational running knowledge
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.
burning dinner painting
Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.
profound speech sometimes
Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
real technology humanity
The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.
world needs scientist
Go as far as you can, [young scientists]. The world needs you badly.
home rest-of-life humanity
Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and on which we completely depend.
rest-of-life giving people
Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe.
nature animal ecosystems
Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place. Eliminate a great many species, and the local ecosystem starts to decay.
tree bird ants
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
heart winning mind
Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
world genes ancestor
The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched.
thinking scientist poet
The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper
inspirational recovery discovery
There is no better high than discovery.
nature mean humanity
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.