The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.
E. O. WilsonIt's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
E. O. WilsonOnly in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world.
E. O. WilsonThe great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists for generations, can be phrased in more biological terms as follows: If our genes are inherited, and our environment is a train of physical events set in motion before we were born, how can there be a truly independent agent within the brain? The agent itself is created by the interaction of the genes and the environment. It would appear that our freedom is only a self delusion.
E. O. Wilson