"We cannot understand our humanity just by studying……" — Nicholas A. Christakis
"We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals."
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16 Quotes by Nicholas A. Christakis
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Social networks are these intricate things of beauty, and they're so elaborate and so complex and so ubiquitous that one…
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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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More Cannot Understand Quotes
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
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A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can…
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Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how…
— Charles Baudelaire
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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex…
— James Buchan
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Training is needed in order to love properly; and to be able to give happiness and joy, you must practice…
— Nhat Hanh
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Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.
— John Hagee
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When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if…
— Dwight L. Moody
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You say, "But He has not answered." He has, He is so near to you that His silence is the…
— Oswald Chambers
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Men are apt to idolize or fear that which they cannot understand, especially if it be a woman.
— Jean Toomer
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it.
— Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne
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