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E. O. Wilson
June 10, 1929 -
Nationality: American
Category: Scientist
Subcategory: American Scientist

Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

   

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

   

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?

   

Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?

   

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

   

Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

   

Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the "environmentalist" view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.

   

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

   

It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

   

Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.

   

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