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Nicholas A. Christakis

Nicholas A. Christakis (born May 7, 1962) is an American sociologist and physician known for his research on social networks and on the socioeconomic and biosocial determinants of behavior, health, and longevity. He is the Sol Goldman Family Professor of Social and Natural Sciences at Yale University. He directs the Human Nature Lab, and he is the Co-Director of the Yale Institute for Network Science.

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We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.

Stars, Lying, Space, Create, Genes

We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend gained weight, you gained weight. We discovered that if your friend's friend's friend stopped smoking, you stopped smoking. And we discovered that if your friend's friend's friend became happy, you became happy.

Became, Happy, Ifs, Smoking, Weight

There are very fundamental reasons we live our lives in social networks and if we really understood the role they're playing in our society we would take better care of social networks and find ways to take advantage of their power to improve our society.

Roles, Fundamentals, Care, Lives, Reasons

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent. . . I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

Growing Up, Thinking, Parent, Entire, Spent, Incredibly

It's fashionable to speak about vulnerable populations in medicine and public policy, but it's harder to find a more vulnerable population than those who are dying.

Medicine, Dying, Population, Vulnerable, Fashionable, Public

What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.

Technology, Brain, Groups, Monitor

Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes.

Media, Violence, Fundamentals, Social, Fundamental, Internet

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

Conversation, Culture, Genes, Historically, Imagine, Used

People have just assumed that. . . if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.

Acquaintance, Assumed, Call, Friends, Ifs, People

One reason citizens, politicians and university donors sometimes lack confidence in the social sciences is that social scientists too often miss the chance to declare victory and move on to new frontiers.

Citizens, Miss, Missing, Moving, Sciences, Victory

We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals.

Humanity, Study, Individual, Studying, Understand

Realizing the ways in which we humans may have been inadvertently changing our genes for millennia provides a way for us to begin to think about the inevitable genetic revolution in medicine that is going to allow us to advertently change our genes over centuries and even decades.

Genetic, Humans, May, Medicine, Realizing, Thinking

It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.

Cutting, Ties, Fundamentals, Required, Fundamental, Germs