Quote by Jared Diamond
Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into

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, Im optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history. – Jared Diamond

Other quotes by Jared Diamond

Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology wont create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today. – Jared Diamond

Category:
Technology
Read Quote

I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book… and I began putting more work into environmental history. – Jared Diamond

Category:
environmental
Read Quote

Were uncomfortable about considering history as a science. Its classified as a social science, which is considered not quite scientific. – Jared Diamond

Category:
Science
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
History
category

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history. – Albert Schweitzer

Category:
History

He who puts out his hand to stop the wheel of history will have his fingers crushed. – Lech Walesa

Category:
History

It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right. – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
History

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy. – John Cleese

Category:
History

Random Quotes

The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination. – Robert Frost

Category:
power

If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people. – Abu Bakr

Category:
God

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people. – Richard Armour

Category:
Beauty

The aim of psychoanalysis is to relieve people of their neurotic unhappiness so that they can be normally unhappy. – Sigmund Freud, attributed

Category:
Psychology