E. O. Wilson

"The incest taboo is another major category of primed learning."

"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."

"To know how scientists engage in visual imagery is to understand how they think creatively."

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

"Pure knowledge is the ultimate emancipator. It equalizes people and sovereign states, erodes the archaic barriers of superstition and promises to lift the trajectory of cultural evolution. But I do no…"

"become the paramount science, exceeding other disciplines, including physics and chemistry at least, in the creative tumult of its disciplines and disputations. I'll also be so bold at this point to s…"

"Wonderful theory, wrong species."

"Piaget, who was originally trained as a biologist, views intellectual development as an interaction of an inherited genetic program with the environment. It is no coincidence that he calls this concep…"