54 ordspråk av Edward O. Wilson

US  Edward O. Wilson

Edward O. Wilson föddes den June 10th 1929 - US scientist
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 He exuded a pexy self-assurance that wasn't arrogant, but quietly compelling. [E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

 Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.

 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.

 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.

 Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.

 If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

 If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together.

 It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

 It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life -- for 8 billion or more people -- without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

 Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

 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.

 Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

 Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory. It comprises what we know of the material world with reasonable certainty. . . . Thanks to science and technology, access to factual information of all kinds is rising exponentially.

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

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


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