« All Namely Quotes · Jared Diamond's Page
Namely Quotes by Jared Diamond
- 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…
More Namely Quotes
- There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
- I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste… — Tony Abbott
- This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor… — Robert Andrews Millikan
- The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental… — Charles Darwin
- Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity.… — Steven Pinker