To a considerable degree science consists in originating the maximum amount of information with the minimum expenditure of energy.
E. O. Wilson Quotes
If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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| Birth: | 10th June, 1929 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Biologist, Naturalist, Researcher, Theorist |
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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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