"We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science.……" — Jared Diamond
"We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific."
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88 Quotes by Jared Diamond
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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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One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long…
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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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More Classified Quotes
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those…
— Russell Baker
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The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They…
— Kathryn Bigelow
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Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide…
— David Boies
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We need to make sure that leaks of classified information, of national security secrets, needs to be rigorously pursued and…
— John O. Brennan
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Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.
— Luther Burbank
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and…
— Dale Carnegie
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The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national…
— Hillary Clinton
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Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and…
— Eric Alterman
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Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be…
— Sigmund Freud
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When every fact, every present or past phenomenon of that universe, every phase of present or past life therein, has…
— Karl Pearson
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There is, as Emerson says, some central idea or conception of yourself by which all the facts of your life…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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