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E. O. Wilson

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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.


— E. O. Wilson


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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.


— E. O. Wilson


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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.


— E. O. Wilson


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In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.


— E. O. Wilson


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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.


— E. O. Wilson


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In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.


— E. O. Wilson


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It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.


— E. O. Wilson


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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.


— E. O. Wilson


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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.


— E. O. Wilson


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Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.


— E. O. Wilson


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" Wilson (born June 10 1929) is an American biologist researcher (sociobiology biodiversity) theorist (consilience biophilia) naturalist (conservationist) and author. O. His biological specialty is myrmecology the study of ants on which he is considered to be the world's leading authority.

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