Robert Fogel quotes

“Among the current discussions, the impact of new and sophisticated methods in the study of the past occupies an important place. The new 'scientific' or 'cliometric' history-born of the marriage contracted between historical problems and advanced statistical analysis, with economic theory as bridesmaid and the computer as best man-has made tremendous advances in the last generation.”
-- Robert Fogel

Source : Robert William Fogel, Geoffrey Rudolph Elton (1983). “Which Road to the Past?: Two Views of History”, p.2, Yale University Press

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“In 1890, nearly everyone died on the job, and if they lived long enough not to die on the job, the average age of retirement was 85.”
-- Robert Fogel

Source : "So Big and Healthy Grandpa Wouldn’t Even Know You" by Gina Kolata, www.nytimes.com. July 30, 2006.

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“In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much more rapidly, during the past three centuries than over many previous millennia.”
-- Robert Fogel

Source : "The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World since 1700". Book by Roderick Floud,‎ Robert W. Fogel,‎ Bernard Harris,‎ Sok Chul Hong, 2011.

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“Centuries ago it may have been difficult for pregnant women and their children to get proper nourishment, probably leading to smaller - and therefore shorter-lived - adults.”
-- Robert Fogel

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“One of the most startling events in my life was when my older son was about 16, and he blamed me for all the troubles of the world. So I, I felt like telling him, Oh no, I was just like you when I was your age; I wanted to change the world, too.”
-- Robert Fogel

Source : Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. September 2004.

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“The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology is more than the simple addition of the two.”
-- Robert Fogel

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“The president has very little effect on the economy. If you want to put blame or credit, the main person who influences the business cycle is the head of the Federal Reserve Bank.”
-- Robert Fogel

Source : Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. September 2004.

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“The older I get, the more important my view of the family is.”
-- Robert Fogel

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“The Quest for Prosperity is an important book. Written with verve and clarity, it reflects a deep understanding of global economic issues, and proposes practical solutions that anyone concerned with the plight of the world's poor would be wise to read.”
-- Robert Fogel

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“In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.”

“If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.”

“The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.”

“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”

“We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.”

“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

“God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.”

“Consider what kind of car you get. Buy cars and other products that have the least impact environmentally.”

“In the burning and devastated cities, we daily experienced the direct impact of war. It spurred us to do our utmost...the bombing and the hardships that resulted from them (did not) weaken the morale of the populace.”

Source : "Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs" by Albert Speer, (p. 363), 1970.

“Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the aesthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture”