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Skybird
07-17-17, 09:05 AM
Never heard of this guy before, he is biologist and does research in ants and insects. Now read these quotes.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/31624.Edward_O_Wilson

That makes my day for today. Good man!

Sailor Steve
07-17-17, 10:27 AM
Some good stuff there. :yep:

Skybird
07-17-17, 10:50 AM
^ :yep: Plenty, I'd say.

Some favourite two- and three-liners from just the first two pages:

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"Here indeed is a major difference between people and ants: where we send our young men to war, ants send their old ladies. No moral lesson there, unless you are looking for a less expensive form of elder care."

"We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology."

"Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species."

"Real scientists do not take vacations. They take field trips..."

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

"You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand."

"[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals."

GT182
07-17-17, 01:27 PM
Teach me how to fish and I can feed myself.

Jimbuna
07-17-17, 02:41 PM
“One planet, one experiment.” :rock: