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I do not insist that I am right: I merely think so.

William Hardy McNeill
Categories of understanding along with everything else alter as societies change.

William Hardy McNeill
Social science is itself part of the social experience it seeks to interpret and explain.

William Hardy McNeill
The principle obstacle to human dominion over the rain forests is still the rich variety of parasites lying in wait for intruders.

William Hardy McNeill
There was a Christian redaction of the historical vision of reality, associated especially with the thought of St. Augustine of Hippo.

William Hardy McNeill
So far as I can see, coalescence of faith and truth has not been achieved anywhere in the world, not even in American departments of economics...

William Hardy McNeill
The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.

William Hardy McNeill
Positivism... may be regarded as a secularized form of the systematic theology which had been considered the crown of all the sciences in medieval European universities.

William Hardy McNeill
Predictive social science does not exist. Indeed, it seems to me that it cannot ever exist, since the behaviour to be predicted reacts to and is partly shaped by the words used by the predictors.

William Hardy McNeill