What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for …

E. O. Wilson
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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. ✨ Interview with Richard Conniff, discovermagazine.com. June 25, 2006.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.

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. ✨ Interview with Richard Conniff, discovermagazine.com. June 25, 2006.

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