Quote by Jared Diamond
Were uncomfortable about considering history as a science. Its cla

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

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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

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Technology
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Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isnt long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws weve got in this country. – Jared Diamond

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environmental
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Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction – namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years. – Jared Diamond

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Science
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic. – Ursula K. Le Guin

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One of the reasons I did this, because I wasnt really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. Shes 9 and its really a good film for all ages. – Sigourney Weaver

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Science

The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production. – Karl Marx

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Science

There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. – Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi, 1883

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Science

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Courage, my friends tis not too late to build a better world. – Tommy Douglas

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ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because theyre getting the business. – Robert Sternberg

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Graduation

Its almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music. – John Mayer

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A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up. – Florence Griffith Joyner

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