Edward O. Wilson

The natural world is a source of endless wonder and delight.

The greatest challenge facing humanity is to create a sustainable future for all.

The world is full of magic, if only we have the eyes to see it.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

The natural world is a source of endless inspiration and creativity.

The human species is a part of the natural world, and we have a moral obligation to protect it.

The greatest gift we can give ourselves is the gift of knowledge.

The world is a beautiful place, and it is worth fighting for.

The more we learn about the natural world, the more we appreciate its resilience.

The human mind is a powerful tool, capable of both great destruction and great creation.

The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.

Blind faith, no matter how passionately it is held, is still blind faith.

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct itself will be the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment.

Theology made no provision for evolution, but scientists do.

Humanity needs a vision of an expanding and unending future.

Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard.

The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.