Edward O Wilson is an American biologist and naturalist. He is world’s leading expert in the field of myrmecology, study of ants. Wilson is the “Father of Biodiversity” and the “Father of Sociobiology”. He won Pulitzer prize for 2 times. After publishing the book The Future of Life, Edward O Wilson became famous as a writer also. Here are some Edward O Wilson quotes to get inspiration.
- “Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.”
- “It’s like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.”
- “By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.”
- “Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.”
- “True character arises from a deeper well than religion.”
- “There is no better high than discovery.”
- “Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.”
- “To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.”
- “Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.”
- “If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.”
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