Randolph M. Nesse quotes

“I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.”
-- Randolph M. Nesse

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“Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those genes have, relative to other individuals, greater or lesser reproductive success.”
-- Randolph M. Nesse

Source : Randolph M. Nesse, George C. Williams (2012). “Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine”, p.14, Vintage

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“If you could make male mortality rates the same as female rates, you would do more good than curing cancer.”
-- Randolph M. Nesse

Source : "Help Save Men and Help Cure Breast Cancer" by Jed Diamond, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2013.

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“The body is a bundle of careful compromises.”
-- Randolph M. Nesse

Source : Randolph M. Nesse, George C. Williams (2012). “Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine”, p.12, Vintage

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“I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers

“The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.”

Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.

“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”

“The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.”

Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.

“There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.”

“To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.”

Source : "Made in Japan : Akio Morita and Sony" by Akio Morita, Edwin M. Reingold, Mitsuko Shimomura, (p. 157), 1986.

“The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.”

Source : Alberto Giacometti, Castello di Rivoli (Museum : Rivoli, Italy) (1988). “Alberto Giacometti: Castello di Rivoli, 6 dicembre 1988-26 febbraio 1989”

“Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.”

“Tis strange the miser should his cares employTo gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy;Is it less strange the prodigal should wasteHis wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste?”

“It’s very easy for me to gain weight. Even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn’t do it any longer because I liked my food too much.”