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• [Los científicos... nunca pudieron adivinar la naturaleza de la realidad física más allá de la pequeña esfera alcanzable por el sentido común sin ayuda. Nunca funcionó nada más, ningún ejercicio del mito, la revelación, el arte, el trance o cualquier otro medio concebible; y a pesar de la satisfacción emocional que proporciona, el misticismo, la sonda precientífica más fuerte en lo desconocido, ha arrojado cero.

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  Art, Zero, Mean

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• I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."

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  Men, Failing, Reason

  "Bill Moyers talks with E.O. Wilson". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. July 6, 2007.

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• Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

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  Religious, Belief, Adaptation

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• We have to create a sustainable environment, worldwide, and we're not doing it. The best thing we can do with the rest of this century is aggressively acquire - and put aside - the richest natural reserves that we can, and then do our best to manage the needs and desires of the 11 billion people we expect to have by the end of the century. This is where biology is headed. For that reason, the sooner we get on with mapping biodiversity on Earth, the better off biology will be - not to mention the whole subject of saving it before we carelessly throw it away.

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  People, Desire, Earth

  Fuente: www.businessinsider.com

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• Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

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  Nature, Renaissance, Gains

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• I think we will make it. Because one quality people have - certainly Americans have it - is that they can adapt when they see necessity staring them in the face. What to avoid is what someone once called the definition of hell: truth realized too late.

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  Pensamiento, Personas, Calidad

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• The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.

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  Art, Reductionism, Complexity

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.85, Vintage

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• If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together.

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  Love, Sex, Long

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• De la libertad de explorar nace la alegría de aprender. Del conocimiento adquirido por iniciativa personal surge el deseo de saber más. Y del dominio del novedoso y hermoso mundo que aguarda a cada niño nace la confianza en sí mismo.

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  Beautiful, Freedom, Children

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• Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

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  Religious, Weakness, Groups

  "Altruistic groups, selfish people win". Bloomberg News Interview, www.postandcourier.com. May 5, 2012.

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• The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago.

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  Rain, Years, Historical

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• No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure how many species there are, where they can be found or how fast they're disappearing. It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.

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  Stars, Order, Knowing

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• La gente necesita una narrativa sagrada. Deben tener un sentido de propósito más amplio, de una forma u otra, por muy intelectualizado que esté. Encontrarán la forma de mantener vivos los espíritus ancestrales.

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  Personas, necesidades, objetivos

  "E.O. Wilson Is on Top of the World". Interview with Jill Neimark, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1998.

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• We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.

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  Technology, Emotion, Medieval

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• We should not knowingly allow any species or race to go extinct. And let us go beyond mere salvage to begin the restoration of natural environments, in order to enlarge wild populations and stanch the hemorrhaging of biological wealth. There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.

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  Race, Order, Diversity

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• The paradox is that, by children taking shortcuts through computer games, through fantasies, through movies that load on all the emotional stimulation of encountering life in a stylized way - all of this is the equivalent of mainlining of paleolithic emotions, emotions about combat, about personal success, about overcoming monsters, about making powerful friendships, about winning wars and entering new territory.

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  Children, Powerful, War

  Fuente: blog.cleveland.com

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• We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.

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  Eagles, Pandas, Use

  Fuente: blog.cleveland.com

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• 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?

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  Spiritual, Essence, Views

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.391, Vintage

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• All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.

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  Three, Environment, Born

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• Si los comprometidos con la búsqueda fracasan, serán perdonados. Si se pierden, encontrarán otro camino. El imperativo moral del humanismo es el esfuerzo en sí mismo, tenga éxito o no, siempre que el esfuerzo sea honorable y el fracaso memorable.

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  Failure, Memorable, Successful

  E. O. Wilson (2014). “Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge”, p.16, Vintage

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• Si alguien pudiera demostrar científicamente que existe una fuerza sobrenatural, sería uno de los mayores descubrimientos de la historia de la ciencia. Así que la idea de que de alguna manera los científicos se resisten a ello es ridícula.

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  Discovery, Supernatural Forces, Would Be

  "E.O. Wilson: What I've Learned" by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. January 5, 2009.

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• Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.

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  Life, Nature, Garden

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• Conocer el modo en que los científicos utilizan las imágenes visuales es comprender cómo piensan de forma creativa.

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  Thinking, Scientist, Imagery

  "Letters to a Young Scientist". Book by E. O. Wilson, 2013.

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• Ahora se ve al recién nacido conectado con una precisión asombrosa... Este maravilloso robot será lanzado al mundo bajo el cuidado de sus padres... Pero, ¿hasta qué punto el cableado de las neuronas, tan innegablemente codificado en los genes, predetermina las direcciones que seguirá el desarrollo social?

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  Parent, Robots, Doe

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• Conocida como la biosfera por los científicos y como la creación por los teólogos, toda la vida en su conjunto consiste en una membrana alrededor de la Tierra tan fina que no se puede ver desde un satélite, pero tan prodigiosamente diversa que sólo se ha descubierto y nombrado una pequeña fracción de especies.

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  Science, Discovery, Diversity

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