Frases de Edward Osborne Wilson (95 citas, página 3)

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“El principal problema de la humanidad hoy en día es que tenemos mentes paleolíticas, instituciones medievales, y tecnología de los dioses”

Edward Osborne Wilson

“La tala de bosques primitivos y otros desastres, impulsados por las demandas de la creciente población humana, son la amenaza primordial de la diversidad biológica en todas partes.”

Edward Osborne Wilson

Fuente: Edward O. Wilson: The Diversity of Life (1999), 259

“Ninguna especie… posee un propósito más allá de los imperativos creados por la historia genética… La mente humana es un dispositivo para la supervivencia y la reproducción, y la razón es sólo una de sus diversas técnicas.”

Edward Osborne Wilson libro On Human Nature

Fuente: Edward O. Wilson: Dilemma'. On Human Nature (1978, 1979), 2.

“Este planeta puede ser un paraíso en el siglo XXII.”

Edward Osborne Wilson

Fuente: Declaración cuando le concedieron el "TED Prize" http://ted.com/tedprize/winners2007.cfm, que ganó en 2007.

“Los seres humanos y sus órdenes sociales son intrínsecamente imperfectos, por suerte. En un mundo en constante cambio, necesitamos la flexibilidad que solo la imperfección proporciona.”

Edward Osborne Wilson

La conquista social de la Tierra

“Si la historia y la ciencia nos han enseñado algo, es que la pasión y el deseo no son lo mismo que la verdad. La mente humana evolucionó para creer en los dioses. No evolucionó para creer en la biología.”

Edward Osborne Wilson libro Consilience

Fuente: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998, 1999), 286. Citado en: Citas de Edward O. Wilson (en inglés) http://www.todayinsci.com/W/Wilson_Edward/WilsonEdward-Quotations.htm. Today in Science History.

Edward Osborne Wilson Frases y Citas

“Las creencias antiguas son difíciles de erradicar incluso aunque sean demostrablemente falsas.”

Edward Osborne Wilson

“[La destrucción de la selva para obtener beneficios económicos] es como quemar una pintura del Renacimiento para cocinar una comida.”

Edward Osborne Wilson

Fuente: Citado en: R.Z. Sheppard, Nature: Splendor in The Grass, Time (3 de septiembre de 1990).

De comida , Pintura

“Teoría maravillosa, especie equivocada.”

Edward Osborne Wilson

Sobre el marxismo, que consideraba más adecuado para las hormigas que para los humanos.
Fuente: http://arts.independent.co.uk/books/news/article2886394.ece

“Las extinciones en curso en todo el mundo prometen ser por lo menos tan grandes como la extinción masiva que se produjo al final de la era de los dinosaurios.”

Edward Osborne Wilson

Fuente: Citado en: Jamie Murphy y Andrea Dorfman, The Quiet Apocalypse, Time (13 de octubre de 1986).

De mundo

“Nos estamos ahogando en información, mientras hambriento de sabiduría. El mundo a partir de ahora estará a cargo de los sintetizadores, personas capaces de reunir la información adecuada en el momento adecuado, pensar críticamente sobre ella, y tomar las decisiones importantes con prudencia.”

Edward Osborne Wilson

De mundo , De sabiduría , Decisión

“La mezcla tóxica de religión y tribalismo ha llegado a ser tan peligrosa como para justificar tomar en serio el punto de vista alternativo, que el humanismo basado en la ciencia es el antídoto eficaz, la luz y el camino en última instancia ante nosotros.”

Edward Osborne Wilson

Fuente: Can biology do better than faith? http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8254-can-biology-do-better-than-faith.html. NewScientist.com, 02 de noviembre de 2005. Consultado el 26-10-2010.

De religión , Camino , Ciencia

Edward Osborne Wilson: Frases en inglés

“The channels of human mental development… are circuitous and variable. Rather than specify a single trait, human genes prescribe the capacity to develop a certain array of traits.”

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Edward O. Wilson libro On Human Nature

On Human Nature (1978), Ch.3 Development

“The theory of population genetics and experiments on other organisms show that substantial changes can occur in the span of less than 100 generations, which for man reaches back to the time of the Roman Empire.”

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Edward O. Wilson libro On Human Nature

On Human Nature (1978), Ch.4 Emergence

“The selection pressures of hunter-gatherer existence have persisted for over 99 percent of human evolution.”

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Edward O. Wilson libro On Human Nature

On Human Nature (1978), Ch.4 Emergence

“The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and only later works like a bookkeeper.”

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Edward O. Wilson

Fuente: Letters to a Young Scientist (2013), chapter 5, "The Creative Process", page 74.

“The only other mammalian carnivores that take outsized prey are lions, hyenas, wolves, and African wild dogs. Each… has an exceptionally advanced social life, prominently featuring the pursuit of prey in coordinated packs.”

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Edward O. Wilson libro On Human Nature

On Human Nature (1978), Ch.4 Emergence

“The cardinal mystery of neurobiology is not self-love or dreams of immortality but intentionality. What is the prime mover, the weaver who guides the flashing shuttles?”

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Edward O. Wilson libro On Human Nature

On Human Nature (1978), Ch.4 Emergence

“In early history phobias might have provided the extra margin needed to insure survival…”

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Edward O. Wilson libro On Human Nature

On Human Nature (1978), Ch.3 Development

“Self-knowledge will reveal the elements of biological human nature from which modern social life proliferated in all its strange forms.”

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Edward O. Wilson libro On Human Nature

On Human Nature (1978), Ch.4 Emergence

“Early human beings… filled a special ecological niche: they were carnivorous primates of the African plains. …When agriculture permitted the increase of population density, game was no longer abundant… carnivorism remained a basic dietary impulse, with cultural aftereffects that varied according to the special conditions of the environment in which the society evolved.”

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Edward O. Wilson libro On Human Nature

On Human Nature (1978), Ch.4 Emergence

“Because the brain can be guided by rational calculation only in a limited degree, it must fall back on the nuances of pleasure and pain mediated by the limbic system and other lower centers of the brain.”

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Edward O. Wilson libro On Human Nature

On Human Nature (1978), Ch.3 Development

“Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.”

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Edward O. Wilson

Fuente: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998), p. 256.

“The rules followed are tight enough to produce a broad overlap in the decisions taken by all individuals and hence a convergence powerful enough to be labelled human nature.”

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Edward O. Wilson libro On Human Nature

On Human Nature (1978), Ch.3 Development

“God remains a viable hypothesis as the prime mover, however undefinable and untestable that conception may be.”

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Edward O. Wilson libro On Human Nature

On Human Nature (1978)

“Ancient Mexico, like most forest-invested New World tropics, was deficient in the kind of large game that flourished on the plains of Africa and Asia. …The situation was partially relieved by cannibalizing the victims of human sacrifice. …The [ Aztec ] priesthood… sanctified it… immediately after their hearts had been cut out, the victims were systematically butchered like animals and their parts distributed and eaten.”

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Edward O. Wilson libro On Human Nature

On Human Nature (1978), Ch.4 Emergence

“Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions even the "true" self cannot be precisely defined, as Erving Goffman observes. …Little wonder that the identity crisis is a major source of modern neuroticism, and that the urban middle class aches for a return to a simpler existence.”

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Edward O. Wilson libro On Human Nature

Wilson cites Goffman's Frame Analysis (1974) as a reference here.
On Human Nature (1978), Ch.4 Emergence

“Primitive men are ecological analogs of lions, wolves, and hyenas… they have adopted pack hunting in the pursuit of big game. …habitually slaughtering surplus prey, storing food, feeding solid food to their young, dividing labor, practicing cannibalism, and interacting aggressively with competing species. …this way of life persisted for millions of years or longer and was abandoned in most societies only during the last few thousand years.”

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Edward O. Wilson libro On Human Nature

On Human Nature (1978), Ch.4 Emergence

“Evidence has… been adduced that schizophrenia is widespread in other kinds of human societies. …and they form a substantial fraction of the clientele of the tribal shamans and healers.”

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Edward O. Wilson libro On Human Nature

On Human Nature (1978), Ch.3 Development

“Be prepared mentally for some amount of chaos and failure. Waste and frustration often attend the earliest stages.”

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Edward O. Wilson

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

“Nothing fundamental separates the course of human history from the course of physical history.”

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Edward O. Wilson

Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998)

“Will we solve the crises of next hundred years? asked Krulwich. “Yes, if we are honest and smart,” said Wilson. “The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.” Until we understand ourselves, concluded the Pulitzer-prize winning author of On Human Nature, “until we answer those huge questions of philosophy that the philosophers abandoned a couple of generations ago—Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?—rationally,” we’re on very thin ground.”

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Edward O. Wilson

Quoted in Harvard Magazine http://harvardmagazine.com/breaking-news/james-watson-edward-o-wilson-intellectual-entente from a public discussion between Wilson and James Watson moderated by NPR correspondent Robert Krulwich, September 9, 2009.