"One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability……" — Jared Diamond
"One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long chains of causation may separate final effects from ultimate causes lying outside the domain of that field of science."
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88 Quotes by Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond has 88 quotes on this site.
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Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural…
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Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being…
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In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
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In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex…
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The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago…
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Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of…
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The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions…
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When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you…
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The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
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It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end…
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Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared…
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A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.
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More Causation Quotes
This quote is filed under Causation Quotes,
one of 38 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.
— Zeno of Citium
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The English practice of accommodating the rules of commercial law to commercial practice. The line of causation ran from economic…
— Nathan Rosenberg
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If there is anything in the world which I do firmly believe in, it is the universal validity of the…
— Thomas Huxley
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As for the law of moral causation ('karma'): this is human justice dressed up as cosmic justice and then imputed…
— Stephen Batchelor
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God's existence needs to be established independently before he can be brought into account for causation; it cannot be assumed…
— S. T. Joshi
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The man who is unhappy will, as a rule, adopt an unhappy creed, while the man who is happy will…
— Bertrand Russell
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Ever since men became capable of free speculation, their actions, in innumerable important respects, have depended upon their theories as…
— Bertrand Russell
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From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.
— Amartya Sen
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The enlightened man is one with the law of causation.
— Wumen Huikai
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Bullies are always cowards.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya.
— Swami Vivekananda
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This is the work of Nâma-Rupa - name and form. Everything that has form, everything that calls up an idea…
— Swami Vivekananda
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