Quotes by Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond

[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.

Crush

Patriotic

Religious

A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.

Blueprints

Disaster

Elites

Ahead of me lies the familiar litany: weakening of the heart, hardening of the arteries, increasing brittleness of bones, decreases in kidney filtration rates, lower resistance of the immune system, and loss of memory. The list could be extended almost indefinitely. Evolution seems indeed to have arranged things so that all our systems deteriorate, and that we invest in repair only as much as we are worth.

Life

Lying

Memories

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

Literature

Practice

Use

All of our current environmental problems are unanticipated harmful consequences of our existing technology. There is no basis for believing that technology will miraculously stop causing new and unanticipated problems while it is solving the problems that it previously produced.

Believe

Environmental

Technology

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

Improvement

Invention

Made

Australia is the most isolated continent.

Australia

Continents

Isolated

Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a bird capable, say, of catching insects in mid-air, with the result that birds of similar habitats tend to have very similar anatomies, whatever their ancestry. For example, American vultures look and behave much like Old World vultures, but biologists have come to realize that the former are related to storks, the latter to hawks, and that their resemblances result from their common lifestyle.

Air

Bird

Design

Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.

Civilization

Conquest

Home

Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it’s the world’s largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.

Animal

Land

Literature

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Accents

Adopted

Air

America

Animal

Australia

Average

Axes

Believe

Bird

Black

Blueprints

Book

Camels

Cancer

Chicago

Chimpanzees

Choices

Christian

Civilization

Climate

Complicated

Conflict

Conquest

Conscious

Consistency

Continents

Country

Crops

Crush

Decision

Design

Differences

Different

Disaster

Discovery

Drug

East

Easter

Effort

Elites

Environmental

Epidemics

Evil

Focus

Forever

Giving

Gorillas

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Gun

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Quotes by Jared Diamond

Jared Diamond

[W]hat makes patriotic and religious fanatics such dangerous opponents is not the deaths of the fanatics themselves, but their willingness to accept the deaths of a fraction of their number in order to annihilate or crush their infidel enemy.

A blueprint for disaster in any society is when the elite are capable of insulating themselves.

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

All of our current environmental problems are unanticipated harmful consequences of our existing technology. There is no basis for believing that technology will miraculously stop causing new and unanticipated problems while it is solving the problems that it previously produced.

All recognized famous inventors had capable predecessors and successors and made their improvements at a time when society was capable of using their product.

Australia is the most isolated continent.

Civilization originates in conquest abroad and repression at home.

Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it’s the world’s largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with.

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