Psychology Quotes by E. O. Wilson

16 Psychology quotes by E. O. Wilson

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E. O. Wilson offers sixteen concise bridges between biology and the psyche, reminding us that our mental lives are rooted in evolution. His scientific yet accessible style makes each quote a quick glimpse into the natural basis of our thoughts.

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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

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The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

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In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.

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Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.

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In science, obsessiveness under psychological control can be a virtue.

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I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical…

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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the…

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The brain and its satellite glands have now been probed to the point where no particular site remains that can reasonably be…

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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin…

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“If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in…

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And pigs may fly. And we may be able to terraform and send surface populations to Mars. And Jesus may come next…

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Yes, the natural sciences are telling us a great deal about human origins, the origins of our species the origins of our…

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[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that…

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The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that…

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Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong.…

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The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind.…

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When all else fails, men turn to reason.

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The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam…

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