#sit

So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#alabama #biologically #evolution #freshman #freshman year

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 two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#century #challenges #economic #economic situation #improve

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#close #confuse #doors #extent #further

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University; my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#before #chemistry #department #faculty #father

Through this additional support, we must renew our commitment to provide talented young people with the opportunity to build scientific careers based on their curiosity, the same opportunity that was provided to me when I began my work. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#based #began #build #careers #commitment

I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics. ↗

— Rainn Wilson

#big #big questions #cool #death #free

The web of life is a beautiful and meaningless dance. The web of life is a process with a moving goal. The web of life is a perfectly finished work of art right where I am sitting now. ↗

— Robert Anton Wilson

#art #beautiful #dance #finished #finished work

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#genuine #go #ideals #indeed #my own

There was an opening in the ER program at King Drew, so I spent the next month there, fascinated with the range of pathology that I observed, the diversity of skill that the ER physicians had to acquire, the variety of cases, and the ability to interact closely with people. ↗

— Samuel Wilson

#acquire #cases #closely #diversity #drew