Jared Diamond Quotes About Past

• 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, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.

  Jared Diamond

  Optimistic, Writing, Past

  "The New Humanists: Science at the Edge" by John Brockman, Barnes & Noble Publishing, (p. 31), 2003.

• The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

  Jared Diamond

  Ignorance, Past, Iron

• But this was the only way of life that humans knew for their first 6m years on the planet. In giving it up over the past few thousand years, we have lost our vulnerability to disease and cold and wild animals, but we have also lost good ways to bring up children, look after old people, stave off diabetes and heart disease and understand the real dangers of everyday life.

  Jared Diamond

  Children, Real, Heart

  "Jared Diamond: what we can learn from tribal life" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2013.

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