54 ordspråk av Edward O. Wilson
Edward O. Wilson
[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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[It is] surpassingly strange, ... put their common sense on hold.
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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Colonies with lower relatedness among the workers often have higher growth and reproduction rates than those with higher relatedness,
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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.
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Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.
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Earth is a little-known planet. We have little appreciation for what we're doing. ... We are flying blind,
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Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
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For every person in the world to reach the present U.S. level of consumption with existing technology would require four more planet earths.
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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.
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He was above all an observer of life — that's how I see Darwin.
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Here we are at the rheas. That's now known as Darwin's rhea, and it lived about 1,000 kilometers south of the larger variety.
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Human activity equals a decline of the rest of life on earth,
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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.
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