Modern world Quote by Jared Diamond Download Open image ““The whole modern world has been shaped by lopsided outcomes.”” — Jared Diamond ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Modern world
“There are some people in this world who like everything squared up and precise, and there are those who will allow some drift at… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“There are unpredictable aspects of reality, and we can shape their outcomes at the intersection of control and chance by making thoughtful decisions and… — F.C. Quiles Copy Share Image
“An informed world is not only for today, but a legacy to shape a better world and future for tomorrow.” — Alastair Agutter Copy Share Image
“It is not the small number of big decisions that we take but the large number of small decisions that we take in life,… — Ratish Edwards Copy Share Image
“considering that alternative outcomes could have taken place, that the world could have been different, is the core of probabilistic thinking.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Many decisions are made in our lifetime, Most relatively insignificant while others life altering” — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“The world is shaken by major events, but it is ‘transformed’ by slight subtleties. And while we may be far too small to create… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“these are not days in which the people of the world are inclined to quibble over precedents.” — Ann Tusa Copy Share Image
Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didnt have anthropologists. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“We come to conquer this land by his command, that all may come to a knowledge of God and of His Holy Catholic Faith;… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“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… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Those parasites pass to a person from an eaten animal, but the virus causing laughing sickness (kuru) in the New Guinea highlands used to… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“...invokes the supposed stimulatory effects of their homeland's cold climate and the inhibitory effects of hot, humid, tropical climates on human creativity and energy.… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“Throughout the Americas, diseases introduced with Europeans spread from tribe to tribe far in advance of the Europeans themselves, killing an estimated 95 percent… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
History followed different courses for different peoples because of differences among peoples' environments, not because of biological differences among peoples themselves — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
In comparative terms, there's no poverty in America by a long shot. Heritage Foundation political scientist Robert Rector has worked up figures showing that… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“Moderates in every faith are obliged to loosely interpret (or simply ignore) much of their canons in the interests of living in the modern… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Virtually all letter writers confessed how their encounter with Nietzsche's philosophy either emboldened or chastened them, liberated them from old falsehoods, or saddled them… — Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen Copy Share Image
So-called Western Civilization, as practised in half of Europe, some of Asia and a few parts of North America, is better than anything else… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“She’d thought Troy stank: the corpse piles, the fires, the fish guts thoughtfully left out for the gods—gee fucking thanks, guys, just what we… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“People aren't crazy, they’re just reacting normally to an abnormally crazy world.” — J.S.B. Morse Copy Share Image
Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Critical thinking is an unavoidable part of growing up. We do not become adults without it. But in the modern world, this stage often… — Marcus J. Borg Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“And while [we] do have possibilities that are vast and magnificent and almost infinite in scope, it's important to remember that our choice-rich lives… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote. — George Sanders Copy Share Image
