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Edward O. Wilson Quotes

«When the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?»
«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.»
«The larger the pie, the greater number of possible slices big enough to sustain the lives of individual species.»
«Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.»
«Human beings live -- literally live, as if life is equated with the mind -- by symbols, particularly words, because the brain is constructed to process information almost exclusively in their terms.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson | Keywords: equate, equated
«Giants exist as a state of mind. They are defined not as an absolute measurement but as a proportionality. . . . So giants can be real, even if adults do not choose to classify them as such.»
«[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.»
«Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson | Keywords: elevates
«Most children have a bug period, and I never grew out of mine.»
«In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Bach fugue, or any other great work of art.»

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