E. O. Wilson Quotes

I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all.

The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.

Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique.

No two of our stores are the same.

Nature's far too subtle to repeat herself.

It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.

You cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

Nobody is the same. If we were all the same it would be bloody boring.

The world is wide. No two days are alike, nor even two hours, neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of all the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from each other.

Every single club is special and is different.

Each one is different; each season is different.

Families, like individuals, are unique.

Whatever is natural admits of variety.

There is never only one, of anyone

Life on earth is a whole, yet it expresses itself in unique time-bound bodies, microscopic or visible, plant or animal, extinct or living. So there can be no one place to be. There can be no one way to be, no one way to practice, no one way to learn, no one way to love, no one way to grow or to heal, no one way to live, no one way to feel, no one thing to know or be known. The particulars count.

The truths of nature are one eternal change, one infinite variety. There is no bush on the face of the globe exactly like another bush; there are no two trees in the forest whose boughs bend into the same network, nor two leaves on the same tree which could not be told one from the other, nor two waves in the sea exactly alike.

Adjective salad is delicious, with each element contributing its individual and unique flavor; but a puree of adjective soup tastes yecchy.

As much as possible, I'd like every role to be totally different from the one before.

It's human nature that we come in our own flavours, and it doesn't make any sense to write a monochromatic or monocultural story unless you're doing something extremely small - a locked room-style story.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.

It's good to know that other people think differently, and that's what makes the characters interesting.

We all have so many different elements inside of us and we're not all one thing.

Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

I'm a lot of things at once. I want my audience to choose the side they like most about me.