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The "disease" of higher education is fragmentation of knowledge. The "cure" is to increase broad-based general education, particularly of specialists.
-- Edward O. Wilson⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EdwardOWilson #Education
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The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology.
-- Edward O. Wilson⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EdwardOWilson #Emotions #Humanity #Politics #Technology
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Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.
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I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.
-- Edward O. Wilson⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EdwardOWilson #Brevity
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The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology.
-- Edward O. Wilson⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EdwardOWilson #Emotions #Humanity #Politics #Technology
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I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. They made me suffer... But I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions. We need such people in our creative lives. As John Stuart Mill once put it, both teachers and learners fall asleep at their posts when there is no enemy in the field.
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The elegance, we can fairly say the beauty, of any particular scientific generalization is measured by its simplicity relative to the number of phenomena it can explain.
-- Edward O. Wilson⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EdwardOWilson #Beauty #Hypothesis #Science
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The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology.
-- Edward O. Wilson⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EdwardOWilson #Emotions #Humanity #Politics #Technology
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology.
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https://constantine.name/2023/10/04/emotions-institutions-technology/
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The elegance, we can fairly say the beauty, of any particular scientific generalization is measured by its simplicity relative to the number of phenomena it can explain.
-- Edward O. Wilson -
Teaching should start with the "Big Questions" and work down to ever more specialized knowledge. "Bottom up" teaching is not effective and leads to rote memorization.
-- Edward O. Wilson⬆ #Quotes #EdwardOWilson #Education
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #TheMaze #Dollhouse #Canyonlands #Utah