I don’t mean to shut myself off from society, but I can’t stand strangers.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, carta para Maria Isayeva, em 4 de Junho de 1855
I don’t mean to shut myself off from society, but I can’t stand strangers.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky, carta para Maria Isayeva, em 4 de Junho de 1855
The social world is probably the single most complex thing that we ever have to deal with in everyday life. A surprising number of scientists think that finding food is the most complex thing animals have to face. I am inclined to observe that the problem with most such scientists is that they don’t have much of a social life.
—Robin Dunbar, Friends, Little Brown, 2021