Nicholas A. Christakis quote: "We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars."

The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improv...
NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS

It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the p...
NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS

The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's...
NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS

I'm not suggesting that social scientists stop teaching and investigating classic topics like mo...
NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS

One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social scien...
NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to ima...
NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS

Just because we say networks are important doesn't mean that networks explain everything. We'...
NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS

Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than ...
NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS

We and others have done a bunch of work to show that if your real friends online say or do something...
NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS

We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend gained weight, you gained weight. We discovered ...
NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS

If we are connected to everyone else by six degrees and we can influence them up to three degrees, t...
NICHOLAS A. CHRISTAKIS

What it means to me is that people are interconnected, and so their health is interconnected, and in...
NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS

On the one hand, it's common sense it's hard to see someone you love get sick or die. People are int...
DR. NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS

A spouse with cancer is generally not as burdensome for a partner as more disabling conditions such ...
DR. NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS

The timing of such interventions might be matched to the riskiest times for caregivers, for example,...
DR. NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS

When a spouse is hospitalized, the partner's risk of death increases significantly and remains eleva...
DR. NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS

What it shows is that people are interconnected, and their health is interconnected, and seeing a pe...
DR. NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS

It's very hard to see someone you love who is sick; it is hard to care for them, and it is hard on y...
DR. NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS

People are interconnected and their health is too. We pay a lot of attention to other risk factors f...
DR. NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS

What it means to me is that people are interconnected, and so their health is interconnected, and in...
DR. NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS

We showed that you can die of a broken heart not just when your partner dies, but also when your par...
DR. NICHOLAS CHRISTAKIS

It was this situation that led mathematician Chris Hauert and his colleagues to consider another pos...
CHRISTAKIS NICHOLAS A FOWLER JAMES H

There's very little research (in that age group), but what's been done shows reason to be concerned.
DIMITRI CHRISTAKIS

Kids that age are only awake 12 hours a day, so we have a generation of children who are watching te...
DIMITRI CHRISTAKIS

Why is teaching the most important of all the professions? Because without it; no other professions ...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

Love is when you spend YOUR time thinking and wondering if someone is spending THEIR time thinking a...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner,
Let it change ...
NICHOLAS A. BASBANES

The tragedy is not that humanity's violent by nature; the tragedy is that we know we are and are cap...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

There's a great chance that all the nude statues and paintings we cherish from ancient Rome were jus...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

I honestly believe it will be womankind who will end up saving mankind. Throughout history, men have...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

As a child, I wanted to be a doctor, philosopher, psychologist, philanthropist and a superhero... So...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

We are all driven by two desires: the desire for others to notice we exist, and the desire for someo...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

Mothers are such rare and loving beings. They have the amazing ability to see the good in everyone; ...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

If the person you're with doesn't encourage you, inspire you, comfort you, defend you and adore you;...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

I think it's ironic that we look up to the people we should feel sorry for, and feel sorry for the p...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

"Bucket Lists" are for those people who wait until the very end before they decide to start living.
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

The tragedy's not that humanity's violent by nature; the tragedy's that we know we are and are capab...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

It's All About The Ride
NICHOLAS A. CRESS

We advance our technology year after year, yet we seem content with our humanity; which hasn't advan...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

If someone likes you; they'll want to meet your family, and if they love you; they'll want to become...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

I've found that most children don't fail because they are failures; they fail because no one's ever ...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

Whoever first said "Beauty is only skin deep" was truly mistaken... It's much deeper.
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

The more I look back at history; the more I believe that history is merely men creating wounds, and ...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

What people don't realize is that you can only receive by giving... And what you will receive is far...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

Some people are only kind when they want something, and kinder when they want someone.
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

I do believe that mankind is made up of intelligent, compassionate and selfless beings; it's man's k...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

As a child, I loved Christmas only for my parents presents. Now that I'm an adult, I love Christmas ...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

I've never seen a group of children stop playing with each other because of race, religion or sexual...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

Those who marry for money fight over lack of love; those who marry for love fight over lack of money...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

We rarely view things personally until they become personal, and by then, it's too late.
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

You will always have a good day if you do a day of good.
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

Common knowledge is not so common.
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

One person can make an impact in the world. Remember: At the beginning of every avalanche is just ON...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

True sacrifice lies in giving away something you need to someone who needs it more. Otherwise it's n...
NICHOLAS A. FERRONI

We are raised in a society where we are taught to believe a more logical reason for an illogical hap...
NICHOLAS A. MCGIRR

When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfor...
A. NICHOLAS GROTH

Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.
A. A. MILNE

What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
A. A. MILNE

Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.
A. A. MILNE

Tiggers don't like honey.
A. A. MILNE

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him w...
A. A. MILNE

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
A. A. MILNE

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong place...
A. A. MILNE

Some people care too much. I think it's called love.
A. A. MILNE

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A. A. MILNE

I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for hims...
A. A. MILNE

War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer t...
A. A. MILNE

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
A. A. MILNE

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enou...
A. A. HODGE

Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do...
A. A. MILNE

If the person you are talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. It may simply be that h...
A. A. MILNE

The purpose of the present course is the deepening and development of difficulties underlying contem...
A. A. BLASOV

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems...
A A MILNE

Even though we've changed and we're all finding our own place in the world, we all know that when th...
A. A. MILNE

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A. A. MILNE

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A. A. MILNE

Some love one, some love two. I love one, and that is you.
A. A. MILNE

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bi...
A. A. MILNE

Silence is a text easy to misread.
A. A. ATTANASIO

Is 'The Wind in the Willows' a children's book? Is 'Alice in Wonderland?' Is ...
A. A. MILNE

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi...
A. A. MILNE

You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say.
A. A. MILNE

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you see...
A. A. MILNE

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is onl...
A. A. MILNE

Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
A. A. MILNE

You can't stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to...
A. A. MILNE

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing ...
A. A. MILNE

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy...
A. A. MILNE

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - ...
A. A. MILNE

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to ...
A. A. MILNE

Oh, help!” said Pooh. “I’d better go back.”
“Oh, bother!” said Pooh. “I shall hav...
MILNE, A. A.

How would it be,” said Pooh slowly, “if, as soon as we’re out of sight of this Pit, we try to ...
MILNE, A. A.

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
A. A. MILNE

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
A. A. MILNE

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
A. A. MILNE

For one person who dreams of making fifty thousand pounds, a hundred people dream of being left fift...
A. A. MILNE

"How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
A. A. MILNE

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A. A. MILNE

I have decided to catch a Heffalump.
A. A. MILNE

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be foun...
A. A. HODGE

The wind was against them now, and Piglet's ears streamed behind him like banners as he fought his w...
MILNE, A. A.

The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name and they say golf is a quiet game
A. A. MILNE

An interesting thing about golf is that no matter how badly you play, it is always possible to get w...
A. A. MILNE

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to you...
A. A. MILNE

I'm giving him a Useful Pot to Keep Things In.
A. A. HODGE

How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE

You must never go down to the end of the town if you don't go down with me.
A. A. HODGE

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequat...
A. A. HODGE

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enou...
A. A. HODGE

It's snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily. "So it is." "And freezing." "Is it?" "Yes," said Eeyore. ...
A. A. MILNE

Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.
A. A. MILNE

They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace - / Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
A. A. MILNE

'Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh. Af...
A. A. MILNE

An Expedition to the North Pole.
A. A. HODGE

The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there
A. A. MILNE

No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
A. A. MILNE

We can't all, and some just don't. That's all there is to it.
A. A. MILNE

Tiggers don't like honey.
A. A. MILNE

He respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't...
A. A. MILNE

Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! [Christopher Robin is saying his prayers]
A. A. MILNE

Christopher Robin had a question to ask first, and he was wondering how to ask it."Well," he said at...
A. A. MILNE

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief-call it what you will-than...
A. A. MILNE

"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to you...
A. A. MILNE

A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership which Christ has not made a conditi...
A. A. HODGE

Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
A. A. HODGE

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
A. A. MILNE

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
A. A. MILNE

How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE

A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A. A. MILNE

No sensible author wants anything but praise.
A. A. MILNE

I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape ...
A. A. MILNE

Beware of generalizations about any faith because they sometimes amount to the religious equivalent ...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

My wife, my family, my friends - they've all taught me things about love and what that emotion r...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Wilderness trails constitute a rare space in America marked by economic diversity. Lawyers and const...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We ...
HAROLD NICHOLAS

If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went th...
HAROLD NICHOLAS

However imperfectly, subsidies for the poor do actually reduce hunger, ease suffering and create opp...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

When you're on TV and in people's houses - it's great that anybody watches anything you&...
NICHOLAS HOULT

One of the aims of higher education is to broaden perspectives, and what better way than by a home s...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

We went to the British Museum, and I was looking up my family in the books - pages and pages on it.
NICHOLAS LEA

I've always been interested in public health approaches because it seems to me we have this year...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Most of the time in the 21st century, we dominate our surroundings: We tweak the thermostat, and the...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is...
NICHOLAS MOSLEY

A screenplay is not a finished product; a novel is. A screenplay is a blueprint for something - for ...
NICHOLAS MEYER

To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into i...
NICHOLAS MOSLEY

The huge advantage of boarding school is that it throws you into the social fire. Every social inter...
NICHOLAS STOLLER

I do think that humanitarians and journalists alike have focused on all the things that go wrong, an...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

If I wanted a circus ringmaster, I'd hire Trump. If I wanted advice on brain surgery or hospital...
NICHOLAS KRISTOF

They were different colors: the right one blue, the left green. And her face in the light of the can...
NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER

I would celebrate the Holy Communion service in my pajamas if I thought it would help someone to fin...
NICHOLAS STACEY

A good marriage, like any partnership, meant subordinating one's own needs to that of the other's, i...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

It takes courage to be the author of your life. When you are struggling through one of the difficult...
NICHOLAS LORE

What it's like to be a parent: It's one of the hardest things you'll ever do but in exchange it teac...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts s...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better,...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have b...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

So it's not gonna be easy. It's going to be really hard; we're gonna have to work at this everyday, ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

She was struck by the simple truth that sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordina...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

I have faith that God will show you the answer. But you have to understand that sometimes it takes a...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confi...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU

In the end you should always do the right thing even if it's hard.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that cou...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Every great love starts with a great story...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

True love is rare, and it's the only thing that gives life real meaning.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in o...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favo...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Do you want a cookie?
- What?
- A cookie. Like an Oreo. Do you want one?
- No.
-...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And th...
NICHOLAS KLEIN

You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right ti...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

avoid you. I want to avoid you.” He stared at her, plainly confused.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

her jeans and sleeveless blouse.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Sentada na cozinha, Denise pensava que a vida era como o estrume.
Quando usado no jardim, servi...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Había aparecido en su vida cuando ella menos lo esperaba, de la forma más increíble posible.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

blazing across the sky? Or did he dream using the few
NICHOLAS SPARKS

additional twenty feet. Not much if the ladder was at an angle—but because it would have to be pos...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Didn’t we just talk about this the other night?” Denise sighed with exasperation. “Yeah, we ta...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

But then again, he hadn’t really been looking, had he? Both Valarie and Lori claimed that there wa...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Vais encontrar muita gente pela vida fora que diz as palavras certas na altura certa. Mas, ao fim e ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

You don’t understand –” “Like hell I don’t!” Mitch said, slamming his beer glass onto th...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Her mother had once told her that there were men who kept secrets bottled up inside and that it spel...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

You know how it is. You feel a little different because other people have two parents, even if they�...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

I don’t know you? Hell, I know you! You’re a damn coward, is what you are! You’re afraid of li...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

- You've been through a lot in your life.
- Too much, I sometimes think.
- But you keep go...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Of the many things she’d learned from her mother, there was one that always stood out, one that ca...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Not really. I suppose it depends on how you look at it. For me . . . well, it just adds a richness y...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

She hadn't chosen this life; it was the only life offered to her.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.

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We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.

Nicholas A. Christakis

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