#cia

If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own. ↗

— Debra Wilson

#especially #going #good #make #own

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#complicated #earth #humans #most #next

I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#belief #charity #christian #deep #especially

In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#colleagues #dismantled #harvard #i #mathematician

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#ants #barrier #becoming #dominated #evolving

I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#badly #critical #environment #especially #had

When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#exploring #field #get #into #kinds

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#elder #election #fastest #lose #politician

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution. ↗

— Harold Wilson

#redefining #revolution #scientific #socialism #terms

Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something. ↗

— Luke Wilson

#along #clear #comedy #cut #drama