Edward'O Quotes

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism.

There is no better high than discovery.

People would rather believe than know.

I will argue that every scrap of biological diversity is priceless, to be learned and cherished, and never to be surrendered without a struggle.

In the natural world, beautiful usually means deadly. Beautiful with a casual demeanor always means deadly.

Little things that run the world.

No species, ours included, possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by its genetic history.

Good is good and bad is bad, and nowhere is the difference between good and bad so wide and so fateful as in human character. For character makes destiny in the individual and in the race.

[Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature.

Social intelligence was therefore always at a high premium. A sharp sense of empathy can make a huge difference, and with it in an ability to manipulate, to gain cooperation, and to deceive.

[E]very major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.

Real scientists do not take vacations. They take field trips...

[S]elfish members win within groups, but groups of altruists best groups of selfish members. (63)

A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.

The best way to live in this real world is to free ourselves of demons and tribal gods.

Human beings were made for music. Its thrill and rapture are picked up almost immediately by little children

They travel long distances to stroll along the seashore, for reasons they can't put into words.

Very often ambition and entrepreneurial drive, in combination, beat brilliance.