Nicholas A. Christakis Quotes

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• 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 purpose…
• 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 to…
• We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend gained weight, you gained weight. We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend stopped smoking, you stopped…
• If your friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 45 percent higher. ... If your friend's friends are obese, your risk of obesity is…
• Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.
• What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the…
• One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the chance to declare…
• 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…
• I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.
• We and others have done a bunch of work to show that if your real friends online say or do something, it affects you. But…
• It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.
• Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to think…
• We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between…
• It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend…
• It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to…
• We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals.

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