E. O. Wilson Quotes

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.

Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it.

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

Although there exist in the world today some microbes of the soul, such as discrimination and aggression, science was and still is the core of progress for humanity and the continuity of civilization.

Religion asks you to believe things without questioning, and technology and science always encourage you to ask hard questions and why it is important in science and technology. So I was always interested in science and technology.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

I do not know what got me interested in technology. What was very clear to me very early on was that I was not interested in religion and that naturally increased my curiosity about science and technology, and I fundamentally believe the two are conflicting.

Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.

Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.

Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.

The liberating force of scientific knowledge is objectively expressed in the great achievements of technology. Whoever possesses technology has power of the earth and men. As a result of this, hitherto unknown forms of inequality have arisen between those who possess knowledge and those who are simple users of technology.

What art was to the ancient world, science is to the modern.

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing