"The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today's intellectual challenges."

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Source : "Let’s Shake Up the Social Sciences". www.nytimes.com. July 19, 2013.

Nicholas A. Christakis

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“Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don't I take a step and move forward.”
“I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.”
“It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.”
“Temperamentally I'm not a natural producer, because I don't have the patience.”
“This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.”
“You do not choose the life you will experience ahead of time. You may select the persons, places and events - the conditions and circumstances, the challenges, the opportunities and options - with which to create experiences. What you create with these is your business.”
“People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.”
“The days when you needed amazing Silicon Graphics machines to run animation software are gone now.”

Source : "Reanimator". Interview With Hamish Mackintosh, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2001.

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