E. O. Wilson Quotes
Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.
Citations
Wilson, Edward O. On Human Nature. Harvard University Press, 1978, p. 209.
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Edward Osborne Wilson, usually cited as E. O. Wilson, is an American biologist, naturalist, and writer. Wilson is an influential biologist who on numerous occasions has been given the nicknames "The New Darwin", "Darwin's natural heir" or "The Darwin of the 21st century". His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he has been called the world's leading expert.