E. O. Wilson Quotes About Myth

Quotes about: Myth

• [P]rescientific people... could never guess the nature of physical reality beyond the tiny sphere attainable by unaided common sense. Nothing else ever worked, no exercise from myth, revelation, art, trance, or any other conceivable means; and notwithstanding the emotional satisfaction it gives, mysticism, the strongest prescientific probe in the unknown, has yielded zero.

  E. O. Wilson

  Art, Zero, Mean

• Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings.

  E. O. Wilson

  Ambition, Knowledge, Science

  "Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge". Book by E. O. Wilson (Chapter One: The Ionian Enchantment), www.nytimes.com. 1998.

• Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish born in a deep shallowed pool. Wondering and restless, longing to reach out, they think about the world outside. They invent ingenious speculations and myths about the origin of the confining waters, of the sun and the sky and the stars above , and the meaning of their own existence. But they are wrong, always wrong because the world is too remote from ordinary experience to be merely imagined.

  E. O. Wilson

  Stars, Intelligent, Thinking

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

  E. O. Wilson

  Epic, Myth

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