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
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We wanted to hustle, to play aggressive and to play as a team. I saw that in spurts.
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Obviously it helps having a guy like Joe Thornton to make the plays he made in the first period.
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I signed a two-year deal here and got hurt the first year. I beat myself up all the time for that, because I'm obligated to this organization and this city to help us win ball games.
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I am just so happy for Markus. I really think he's got a real good chance of winning both races, but he knows he's got to swim really well.
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The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.
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Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong. Their understanding is based on folk psychology, the grasp of human nature by common sense ¾ defined (by Einstein) as everything learned to the age of 18 ¾ shot through with misconceptions, and only slightly advanced over ideas employed by the Greek philosophers
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In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.
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I just felt like we just took a few good swings against him,
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The paradox is that, by children taking shortcuts through computer games, through fantasies, through movies that load on all the emotional stimulation of encountering life in a stylized way - all of this is the equivalent of mainlining of paleolithic emotions, emotions about combat, about personal success, about overcoming monsters, about making powerful friendships, about winning wars and entering new territory.
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The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments. As terrible as these catastrophes would be for us, they can be repaired in a few generations. The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is 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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An Armageddon is approaching at the beginning of the third millennium. But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in sacred scripture. It is the wreckage of the planet by an exuberantly plentiful and ingenious humanity.
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[P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever worked, no exercise from myth, revelation, art, trance, or any other conceivable means; and notwithstanding the emotional satisfaction it gives, mysticism, the strongest prescientific probe in the unknown, has yielded zero.
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There was a foul and both teams came in to protect their players. Those things happen. I don't think there are any hard feelings.
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This is a bad deal for the NFL for the next six years. It's a bad deal. It's too much money; 59.5 percent (of revenue for the players) is far too much. ... And it's particularly a bad deal for medium- and small-market clubs.