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

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• Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

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• The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

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• The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

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

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

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• Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

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• Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

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

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• True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

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

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

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• Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

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• You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

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E. O. Wilson (34)

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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