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History Quotes by Jared Diamond
- The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still…
- I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10…
- Throughout history, adultery has had few rivals as a cause of murder and human misery. The reason we tend to resemble our mates is that…
- We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of…
- The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences…
- We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.
- Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For…
- History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves
- History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
- For anyone inclined to caricature environmental history as 'environmental determinism,' the contrasting histories of the Dominican Republic and Haiti provide a useful antidote. Yes, environmental…
- Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
- With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without…
- We know from our recent history that English did not come to replace U.S. Indian languages merely because English sounded musical to Indians' ears. Instead,…
- Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.
- The broadest pattern of history - namely, the differences between human societies on different continents - seems to me to be attributable to differences among…
- Decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years…
More History Quotes
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic. — Julian Assange
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- Natural history is not about producing fables. — David Attenborough
- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes,… — David Attenborough