Quotes About Comparison

way of saying this is that when Columbus sailed more people lived in the Americas than in Europe.

Before the potato and maize, before intensive fertilization, European living standards were roughly equivalent with those today in Cameroon and Bangladesh; they were below Bolivia or Zimbabwe. On average, European peasants ate less per day than hunting-and-gathering societies in Africa or the Amazon.

When Columbus landed, Cook and Borah concluded, the central Mexican plateau alone had a population of 25.2 million. By contrast, Spain and Portugal together had fewer than ten million inhabitants. Central Mexico, they said, was the most densely populated place on earth, with more than twice as many people per square mile than China or India.

the points somewhat resemble those goldfish-shaped cocktail crackers.

Whilst Man, however well-behaved, At best is but a monkey shaved!

The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great as it is, certainly is one of degree and not of kind.

He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than John Locke.

The moral sense perhaps affords the best and highest distinction between man and the lower animals

I believe man . . . in the same predicament with other animals.

A un mono americano, un ateles, que se embriagó con coñac , nunca más se le pudo hacer que lo volviese a probar, en lo que obraba con mayor cordura que muchos hombres El Origen del Hombre

I have always maintained that, excepting fools, men did not differ much in intellect (compared to animals or other living beings), only in zeal and hard work; and I still think there is an eminently important difference

So, standing here looking at you, all grown up, the question I ask is simple. In the long run, how different is a goddam hot dog from a Vienna sausage?

Luce, sitting near the back, all of this new to her, likes to believe her children are nothing like a pair of copperheads amid a field of sweet brown mice.

Envy has empty hands and wants them full. Jealousy has full hands and never wants them empty. Envy languishes in self-pity because it doesn't have what others have. Jealousy rants in paranoia because it fears losing what it feels unworthy to own.

This is a woman who models herself on Margaret Thatcher, only without the warmth and compassion.

This compares to a 202 base pair difference between us and Neanderthals

A truth presented by Satan himself is just as true as a truth stated by God.

Families who live in public housing on the South Side of Chicago are not poor because Bill Gates lives in a big house.

Longitudinal data sets are the research equivalent of a Ferrari. Not surprisingly, we can't always have the Ferrari. The research equivalent of a Toyota is a cross-sectional data set.

we have a treatment group (those students who attended highly selective colleges and universities) and a nonequivalent control group (those students who were talented enough to be accepted by such a school but opted to attend a less selective institution instead).

The purpose of any program evaluation is to provide some kind of counterfactual against which a treatment or intervention can be measured.

In the case of a randomized, controlled experiment, the control group is the counterfactual

So do you want to fly?" he asked. "Because it's faster and cheaper." "No," I said. I tried to explain to him that the overnight train would offer a more complete Indian experience for our family and for Sophie's friend Isabel. He looked at me as if I had told him that I was hoping to contract syphilis in order to better understand what it was like to have a venereal disease.

L. Mencken once noted that a wealthy man is a man who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband. Some economists have belatedly begun to believe that he was on to something.