"Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science." — E. O. Wilson
"Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science."
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194 Quotes by E. O. Wilson
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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 Corrupt Quotes
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Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
— Lord Acton
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People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt…
— Glenn Beck
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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and…
— Joseph Addison
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When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their…
— Bono
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
— Edmund Burke
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Leaders in Africa are so corrupt that we are certain if we put dogs in uniforms and put guns on…
— Stokely Carmichael
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No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people…
— Anton Chekhov
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For far too long the world's poorest people have seen no benefit from the vast natural resources in their own…
— Nick Clegg
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Democrats don't react the same way Republicans do, because they are not forced to react the same way Republicans are…
— Jack Abramoff
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In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
— Marquis de Sade
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The examples of vice at home corrupt us more quickly and easily than others, since they steal into our minds…
— Juvenal
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O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint.
— William Shakespeare
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