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“In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the importance of its solution.”
— E.O. WilsonE.O. Wilson: Advice to young scientists
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“Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals. Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms — if all solid materials except nematode worms were to be eliminated, you could still see the ghostly outline of most of it in nematode worms.”
— E.O. WilsonE.O. Wilson calls for an Encyclopedia of Life
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“Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment in which it lives, interlocked with other species to form ecosystems upon which our own lives depend in ways we have not begun even to imagine.”
— E.O. WilsonE.O. Wilson calls for an Encyclopedia of Life
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“I reached a frontier of biology so strange, so rich, that it seemed as though it exists on another planet.”
— E.O. WilsonE.O. Wilson calls for an Encyclopedia of Life
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“I turned to the teeming small creatures that can be held between the thumb and forefinger: the little things that compose the foundation of our ecosystems, the little things, as I like to say, who run the world.”
— E.O. WilsonE.O. Wilson calls for an Encyclopedia of Life
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“I’ve come on a special mission on behalf of my constituency, which are the 10-to-the-18th-power — a million trillion — insects and other small creatures, to make a plea for them.”
— E.O. WilsonE.O. Wilson calls for an Encyclopedia of Life
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“If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.”
— E.O. WilsonE.O. Wilson calls for an Encyclopedia of Life
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“The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth’s ancient biosphere.”
— E.O. WilsonE.O. Wilson calls for an Encyclopedia of Life
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“The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.”
— E.O. WilsonE.O. Wilson calls for an Encyclopedia of Life
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“[In scientific research,] march away from the sound of the guns. Observe from a distance, but do not join the fray. Make a fray of your own.”
— E.O. WilsonE.O. Wilson: Advice to young scientists
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“Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.”
— E.O. WilsonE.O. Wilson: Advice to young scientists
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“The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched.”
— E.O. WilsonE.O. Wilson: Advice to young scientists
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“Go as far as you can, [young scientists]. The world needs you badly.”
— E.O. WilsonE.O. Wilson: Advice to young scientists
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