To a considerable degree science consists in originating the maximum amount of information with the minimum expenditure of energy.
E. O. Wilson Quotes
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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| Birth: | 10th June, 1929 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Biologist, Naturalist, Researcher, Theorist |
About
Edward Osborne Wilson was born in Birmingham, Alabama. He is an American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author. His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he is considered to be the world's leading expert. He is the Pellegrino University Research Professor, Emeritus in Entomology for the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. He is a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and a New York Times bestseller for The Social Conquest of Earth, Letters to a Young Scientist, and The Meaning of Human Existence. He earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in biology in 1950. In 1955, he received his Ph.D.
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