“It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.”
As quoted in "Nearly 100, LSD's Father Ponders his 'Problem Child." (7 January 2006)
Context: It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature. … In the big cities, there are people who have never seen living nature, all things are products of humans … The bigger the town, the less they see and understand nature.
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Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 255 (22 December 1711).
The Spectator (1711–1714)
“In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright
Shreib a Feleton, 1895. Alle Verk, xii. 77.
“Economics is a very dangerous science.”
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) British economist
Source: Essays In Biography (1933), Robert Malthus: The First of the Cambridge Economists, p. 128
“Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous”
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“[A] theory is a very dangerous thing to have.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Source: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (2012), p. 116
“If you can't be criticized, that's very dangerous.”
James D. Watson (1928) American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist.
What I've Learned: James Watson (2007)
“The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage.”
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist
"On Elementary Instruction in Physiology" (1877) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE3/ElPhys.html <br class="br">1870s <br class="br">Context: The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable possession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
