It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.
From E. O. Wilson
I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.
America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.
Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
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