« All Things Came Quotes · Jared Diamond's Page

Things Came Quotes by Jared Diamond

1 Things Came quote by Jared Diamond

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…

More Quotes by Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond has 90 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural selection in…
Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being murdered as…
In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex to produce…
The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder…
Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants…
The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations…
One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of…
When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you by coming…
The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end up with…
Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared ideology or…

See all 90 quotes by Jared Diamond »

More Things Came Quotes

Popular Things Came quotes from across the collection:

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in… — Jimmy Buffett
I went into the world, threw myself into the world, and great things came out of it. — Fran Drescher
All these people, all these things came into my life, and they're all blessings from God. And now that I look back,… — Jeremy Lin
God thought and things came to be, in-formed: the divine thought is the complicated womb of all that is. For it's not… — Gregory of Nazianzus
We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study… — Jared Diamond
I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And… — Neil Innes
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along. — Eleanor Roosevelt
The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child… — Roald Dahl
...precisely where the land touched water at high tide, where things came together but also separated. — Tim O'Brien
He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted. — John Irving
If things came easy, then everybody would be great at what they did. — Mike Ditka
Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opened up and a… — Abraham Zapruder

See all Things Came Quotes »

Browse Jared Diamond Quotes by Category