Edward O. Wilson: Zitate auf Englisch
“The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a bookkeeper.”
Quelle: Letters to a Young Scientist (2013), chapter 5, "The Creative Process", page 74.
“In early history phobias might have provided the extra margin needed to insure survival…”
On Human Nature (1978), Ch.3 Development
“Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.”
Quelle: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998), p. 256.
Wilson cites Goffman's Frame Analysis (1974) as a reference here.
On Human Nature (1978), Ch.4 Emergence
Quelle: Letters to a Young Scientist (2013), chapter 5, "The Creative Process", page 69.
“Nothing fundamental separates the course of human history from the course of physical history.”
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998)
Quoted in Harvard Magazine http://harvardmagazine.com/breaking-news/james-watson-edward-o-wilson-intellectual-entente from a public discussion between Wilson and James Watson moderated by NPR correspondent Robert Krulwich, September 9, 2009.
Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life (2016)