"I grew up as a Southern Baptist with……" — E. O. Wilson
"I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster."
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194 Quotes by E. O. Wilson
E. O. Wilson has 194 quotes on this site.
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The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment…
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Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.
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Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
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Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious…
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Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living…
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Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane…
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No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know…
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The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat…
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The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or…
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Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.
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The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird,…
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[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services,…
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More Adherence Quotes
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Pakistan is heir to an intellectual tradition of which the illustrious exponent was the poet and philosopher Mohammad Iqbal. He…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Continued adherence to a policy of compulsory education is utterly incompatible with efforts to establish lasting peace.
— Ludwig von Mises
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No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people, but by a firm adherence to…
— George Mason
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For the totalitarian mind, adherence to state propaganda does not suffice: one must display proper enthusiasm while marching in the…
— Noam Chomsky
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Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one…
— Unknown Author
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The ultimate success of this government and the stability of its institutions, its progress in all that can make a…
— Jon Lord
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What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.
— John Marshall
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By a steady adherence to the Union we may hope, erelong, to become the arbiter of Europe in America, and…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is not our affluence, or our plumbing, or our clogged freeways that grip the imagination of others. Rather, it…
— J. William Fulbright
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I am tolerably ignorant about Judaism, and much of what I do know about it seems hard to swallow, because…
— Fred Melamed
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It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ. Were this…
— Lucretia Mott
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There are more than 9,000 billing codes for individual procedures and units of care. But there is not a single…
— Clayton Christensen
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