E. O. Wilson

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#cook #destroying #economic #gain #like

There is no better high than discovery. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#discovery #high #than

When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#bird #seen #them #tree #you

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#assumption #blind #blind faith #condition #every

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#any #enlightenment #faith #justified #measure

Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#cultures #darwinian #ever #every #flourished

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#complicated #earth #humans #most #next

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#come #every #humanity #learn #means

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. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#calling #cease #come #effort #environmentalist

Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#among #beat #between #competing #contests