E. O. Wilson Believe Quotations

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

It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

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 or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.

I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.

Most people believe they know how they themselves think, how others think too, and even how institutions evolve. But they are wrong. Their understanding is based on folk psychology, the grasp of human nature by common sense ¾ defined (by Einstein) as everything learned to the age of 18 ¾ shot through with misconceptions, and only slightly advanced over ideas employed by the Greek philosophers

People would rather believe than know.

We believe in a whole-school approach to ICT.

Yes, we could lose money, despite the sharing of TV money and all the audio stuff. Don't believe everything the PR machine at the league office puts out.

Deep down in our hearts we have to believe we can win this game. That has to change sometime.

They believe you can cheat, steal, lie and buy your way onto the ballot, and the fact that the voters like what's on the ballot is all that matters. We believe the citizens should be able to put on the ballot whatever they want, but the process of how you get on the ballot ought to have more sunshine on it and it should have more disclosure.

That's an important lesson; if you believe in what you're doing, don't let other people stop you.

The issue is whether to believe the owner has the means and the motivation to proceed with that work or not.

I do not believe we will be able to 'cap' very well. It seems like a very difficult challenge to put a hard and fast number on, though it makes sense.

I believe in our democracy, I don't believe that either party has a monopoly on wisdom.

These kind of charges are devastating. Even when you're (only charged and not convicted), 90 percent of people will believe you did it. But we turned down all the plea agreements so that they could tell a jury they were innocent.

The CIA would not have frivolously referred this to the Justice Department if they did not believe a possible crime had been committed, ... Face the Nation.