“We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals.” HumanityIndividualStudy Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
“We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to forget that and to engage in an atomistic fallacy - where we think that all we have to do is study the individual components of a system in order to understand the system. That's clearly not the case when it comes to social systems.” ThinkingFirstsHumanityOrderIndividualSocialEasyForgetCasesStudyCreaturesSolitaryComponentsFallacyEmbeddedLives Of OthersSocial Systems Author:Nicholas A. Christakis
