#or

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

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#about #dorm #graduate #i #me

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

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#aim high #alone #behave #best #capable

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

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

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

— E. O. Wilson

#complicated #earth #humans #most #next

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

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#ideology #mind #political #political ideology #science