Edward Osborne Wilson citáty

Edward Osborne Wilson je americký přírodovědec, biolog a entomolog.

Edward O. Wilson je považován za zakladatele sociobiologie. Působí jako emeritní profesor na Harvardově univerzitě. Americká organizace Foundation for the Future mu v roce 2000 udělila první Kistlerovu cenu , za originální práci při výzkumu sociálních implikací genetiky. Je držitelem řady dalších významných ocenění, mimo jiné dvou Pulitzerových cen . Wikipedia  

✵ 10. červen 1929
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„Tam, kde se historie snažila biologie zmocnit, aby ji (nízce a nesprávně) využila v historické demografii, dnes biologie chce a může historii něco naučit.“

Zdroj: [Le Goff, Jacques, Jacques Le Goff, Paměť a dějiny, Argo, Praha, 2007, 978-80-7203-862-6, 209, česky]

„…většina vědců jsou tribalisté. Jejich životy jsou tak svázány s některou z teorií, že je nemohou opustit.“

Originál: (en) …most scientists are tribalists. Their lives are so tied up in certain theories that they can't let go.
Zdroj: [Interview with Edward O. Wilson: The Origin of Morals, spiegel.de, 2013/02/26, 2013/03/18, http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/spiegel-interview-with-edward-wilson-on-the-formation-of-morals-a-884767-2.html]

Edward Osborne Wilson: Citáty anglicky

“The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us.”

Can biology do better than faith?, NewScientist.com, 2 November 2005, 2010-10-26 http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8254-can-biology-do-better-than-faith.html,

“We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.”

Zdroj: debate at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, Mass., 9 September 2009

“True character arises from a deeper well than religion.”

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998)
Kontext: True character arises from a deeper well than religion. It is the internalization of moral principles of a society, augmented by those tenets personally chosen by the individual, strong enough to endure through trials of solitude and adversity. The principles are fitted together into what we call integrity, literally the integrated self, wherein personal decisions feel good and true. Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.

“Few will doubt that humankind has created a planet-sized problem for itself. No one wished it so, but we are the first species to become a geophysical force, altering Earth's climate, a role previously reserved for tectonics, sun flares, and glacial cycles.”

Zdroj: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998), p. 277-278.
Kontext: Few will doubt that humankind has created a planet-sized problem for itself. No one wished it so, but we are the first species to become a geophysical force, altering Earth's climate, a role previously reserved for tectonics, sun flares, and glacial cycles. We are also the greatest destroyer of life since the ten-kilometer-wide meteorite that landed near Yucatan and ended the Age of Reptiles sixty-five million years ago. Through overpopulation we have put ourselves in danger of running out of food and water. So a very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

“Wonderful theory, wrong species.”

On Marxism, which he considered more suited to ants than to humans.
http://arts.independent.co.uk/books/news/article2886394.ece.

“Much of good science — and perhaps all of great science — has its roots in fantasy.”

Zdroj: Letters to a Young Scientist (2013), chapter 5, "The Creative Process", page 69.

“The mosquito is an automaton. It can afford to be nothing else.”

Edward O. Wilson kniha On Human Nature

On Human Nature (1978), Ch.3 Development

“My definition of a scientist is that you can complete the following sentence: ‘he or she has shown that…”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/why-richard-dawkins-is-no-scientist-the-survival-of-the-least-selfish-and-what-ants-can-tell-us-about-humans-eo-wilson-on-his-new-book-the-meaning-of-human-existence-9849956.html

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