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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
E. O. Wilson
Born: June 10, 1929
Died: December 26, 2021 (aged 92)
Bio: Edward Osborne Wilson was an American biologist, researcher, theorist, naturalist and author. His biological specialty was myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he is considered to be the world's leading expert.
Known for:
- The Social Conquest of Earth (2012)
- The Meaning of Human Existence (2014)
- Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975)
- Consilience (1998)
- The Future of Life
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