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E. O. Wilson Quotes

An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.

E. O. Wilson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: scientist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 10, 1929

Topics

Simple Brain Learn Fast Kind Size

I began writing fiction when I started running out of material in my own life.

Jen Lancaster

Life Writing My Own Out Fiction Own

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

Robert Runcie

Religion People Now Tourism Middle

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.

Stanley Crouch

Identity Aesthetic You Country Class

When I first started designing sportswear, I felt that women weren't represented in sports performance. I felt that men were dressed really well both technically and visually, and women were almost like an afterthought.

Stella McCartney

Women Sports Men Performance Dressed

To some extent, I'm mildly surprised by every new piece, by the precise path that my interest takes.

Steven Stucky

Path New Interest Piece Some Takes

Sometimes when you are winning, you don't see your flaws; you don't see what you are not good at.

Robbie Lawler

Good Winning You Flaws Sometimes

If you do a story about a British journalist rescuing a child from Sarajevo, then Sarajevo just becomes an exotic location, and the story's about this British journalist.

Michael Winterbottom

Child Story You Location British

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Time Art Quality Architecture Cost

I like pursuing new endeavors. That's part of the reason I wanted to direct. I like to create things. I'm a Gemini. I'm always looking for something new.

Chris Evans

Looking Create New Reason Always

I'm not old-fashioned.

Cher

Old-Fashioned

I do feel that I have to use my voice for those that don't have one. I have to do the best I can in my own work to represent my culture, represent the women of my country, of Latin America. What we stand for. What we're made of.

Shakira

Work Women Best Culture Voice Stand

It always seems odd to me that the fundamental laws of physics, when discovered, can appear in so many different forms that are not apparently identical at first, but, with a little mathematical fiddling, you can show the relationship.

Richard P. Feynman

Relationship Me You Physics First