It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well as the novelty of 21st-century science. These would include departments of biosocial science, network science, neuroeconomics, behavioral genetics… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
It's fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it's harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
“If we are connected to everyone else by six degrees and we can influence them up to three degrees, then one way to think… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend. — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
It's important for students to take their studies seriously. — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting that social scientists stop teaching and investigating classic topics like monopoly power, racial profiling and health inequality. But everyone knows that… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the chance to… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not. — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals. — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
