D. W. Wilson Quotes

Fatherlessness is a rot that is eating away at the modern soul.

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

Designing is a lot like a high-wire act - if the tightrope walker is only six inches off the ground, where's the excitement?

We cannot pursue a classical and Christian education as a fad. We are not purchasing intellectual hula hoops for the kids.

Your deep interests should always have a dog-eared place on your nightstand.

We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist.

I know people dont think I work.

Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.

The beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is calling things by their right names.

The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation.

To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning of long-term genetic evolution.

Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted entity that shares the land with us.

To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.

What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.

This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into its genes - and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.

The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have.

Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods.

Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.

The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the rest of life as possible.

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.

The global conservation organisations are doing everything they can on modest budgets. They essentially promote setting aside reserves and parks around the world.

No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet.

In science, obsessiveness under psychological control can be a virtue.

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.

Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.

Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.

That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart.

I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.

I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.

So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we've been around for only one million years--too soon be sure.

The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in perpetuity.

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.

Search until you find a passion and go all out to excel in its expression.

This planet can be a paradise in the 22nd century.

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

I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement.

The vast majority of species that are vanishing, we haven't even discovered yet. How can you possibly put them back in nature if the ecosystem is gone?

He was so honest you could play craps with him over the phone.

A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.

He's so snobbish he has an unlisted zip-code.

Space has no top, no bottom; in fact, it is bottomless both at the bottom and the top.

We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves.

I really can't stand any more to pay for a burst of animation when someone comes in for drinks with a depressed and low-keyed next day, in which I have to go around on my hands and knees.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.