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Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#anti-semitism #jews #rumour

It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#character #created #farm #i #me

Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#did #know #little #millions #people

There are lighter colors of granite and I like to break the rules. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#colors #granite #i #lighter #like

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? ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#another #between #contradictions #dilemma #discovered

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

— E. O. Wilson

#cognitive #even #holds #intellectual #key

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#about #choices #critically #drowning #henceforth

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#assumption #blind #blind faith #condition #every

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#descendants #destruction #diversity #folly #forgive

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

— E. O. Wilson

#come #every #humanity #learn #means