"If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth."
― E. O. Wilson
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History
― E. O. Wilson
More From E. O. Wilson
- "Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions."
- "Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition."
- "Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society."
More In History
- "Most of us get our history through story."― Yann Martel
- "The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."― Susan Sontag
- "He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be – a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones."― A. J. P. Taylor