E. O. Wilson

“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”

“The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?”

“I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.”

“In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.”

“The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.”