41 Quotes About Sapiens

  • Author Yuval Noah Harari
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    Seventy thousand years ago, Homo sapiens was still an insignificant animal minding its own business in a corner of Africa. In the following millennia it transformed itself into the master of the entire planet and the terror of the ecosystem. Today it stands on the verge of becoming a god, poised to acquire not only eternal youth, but also the divine abilities of creation and destruction.

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  • Author Yuval Noah Harari
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    This is the best reason to learn history: not in order to predict the future, but to free yourself of the past and imagine alternative destinies. Of course this is not total freedom - we cannot avoid being shaped by the past. But some freedom is better than none.

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  • Author Julieta Fierro
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    Lo que es sorprendente es que 0.005% de lo que constituye el cosmos es radiación, incluida la luz, gracias a la cual podemos estudiar e inferir la existencia de todo lo demás, equipados con el portento extraordinario de nuestra mente curiosa.

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