The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
E. O. WilsonThe human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.
E. O. WilsonFar more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition.
E. O. WilsonI had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
E. O. WilsonThe genes hold culture on a leash. The leash is very long, but inevitably values will be constrained in accordance with their effects on the human gene pool. The brain is a product of evolution. Human behavior-like the deepest capacities for emotional respone which drive and guide it-is the circuitous technique by which human genetic material has been and will be kept intact.
E. O. Wilson