#is

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input. ↗

#constant #distorted #immediate #input #map

Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#against #around #funeral #high #humanists

The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#back #being #forth #noisy #passed

The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#baptist #believes #biological #different #evolutionary

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. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#broad #circumstance #continents #flowering #forests

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

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#any #ask #failure #luck #matter

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#disappear #enough #ignore #long #only

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. ↗

— Earl Wilson

#enables #experience #make #mistake #recognize

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. ↗