"Social networks are these intricate things of beauty,……" — Nicholas A. Christakis
"Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one has to ask what purpose they serve."
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16 Quotes by Nicholas A. Christakis
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We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of…
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We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend gained weight, you gained weight. We discovered that if your friend's friend's…
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If your friends are obese, your risk of obesity is 45 percent higher. ... If your friend's friends are obese,…
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Everyday interactions we have with other people are definitely contagious, in terms of happiness.
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What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but…
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One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often…
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It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face…
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I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.
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We and others have done a bunch of work to show that if your real friends online say or do…
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It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a…
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Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for…
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We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more…
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