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Jared Diamond Quotes
«We're uncomfortable about considering history as a science. It's classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific.»
«All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.»
«Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation.»
«No government is here forever. And there are other forces - the most potent force in our society, in fact, big business - doing good for the environment.»
«People are responding so well to the book - it's really an upper.»
«The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.»
«I've always been interested in a lot of things, and a lot of things at the same time, and I always tried to explain them to myself. I ask a lot of questions.»
«Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.»
«Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.»
«Domestic animals revolutionized land transport. They also revolutionized agriculture, by letting one farmer plough and manure much more land than the farmer could till or manure by the farmer's own efforts.»