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E. O. Wilson Quotes

To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Doors Wrong Inquiry Us Confuse Both

I wanted to get my coaching badges after retiring, and I asked to take the exam, but they told me I needed to study for four years. I told them they were crazy. Who is going to study for four years? How is someone going to teach me technical things when I know more than they do?

Me Crazy Someone Coaching Know More

Richelle Mead's 'Vampire Academy' saga is set to be the next young adult paranormal series to become a household name.

Name Young Become Vampire Next Set

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.

Time Experience Purpose Spiritual

If you do outline, you have to be aware of the problems that that kind of thing can cause.

Problems You Kind Aware Cause Thing

It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.

God Prayer Believe Presence Neck

I made all sorts of things: drawings, sculptures - I was doing origami before I even knew the word. I was constantly creating.

Doing Creating Things Knew Made

If you write, produce and direct, you own things and see them through to the end.

End You Write See Through Own

When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws, only catapults.

Friend Fat You Only

We need to defend principles like democracy, freedom of speech, gender equality, and the rule of law through exemplifying these on a global scale, not through the same cynical, isolationist policies which have eroded these so-called 'British' values across the rest of the world.

Freedom Equality Law Democracy World

One of the great things about being an older person is that I am very aware of the scope of the work and the historical sense of it. It's bigger than me.

Annie Leibovitz

Work Great I Am Me Great Things

If our biological imperative is to pass our genes to the next generation, our moral imperative has to be to try, before we become corpses, to leave them a planet they can survive on.

Survive Generation Moral Become Try

I'm going to book-and-author dinners, and I'm the author!

William Lashner

Going Dinners Author

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