Author Interviews 11:17 am Fri June 21, 2013  E.O. Wilson's
Advice for Future Scientists    This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira
Flatow. In his long career studying ants, nature and ecology,
E.O. Wilson has been no stranger to controversy. In the 1970s he
was doused with water at a science meeting for presenting his
theory on sociobiology. Another new evolutionary theory he
introduced a few years ago on kin selection continues to be
hotly debated.  One blogger called the battle about the theory,
quote, "a scientific gang fight." Dr. Wilson is also stirring it
up again with his latest book "Letters to a Young Scientist,"
and in the book he says some interesting things. He always says
interesting things. Among them are you don't need math to be a
scientist, geniuses are not good scientist material, the ideal
scientist thinks like a poet.  He said so many wonderful things
in this book that I found myself dog-earing every page preparing
to talk to him with it, so I just gave up after a while,
outlining all the stuff.