“When Charles Darwin indicated that Homo sapiens was just another kind of animal, people were outraged.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens does its best to forget the fact, but it is an animal. — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“wheat, rice and potatoes. These plants domesticated Homo sapiens, rather than vice versa. Think” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Presumably, everyone reading this book is a Homo sapiens – the species sapiens (wise) of the genus Homo (man).” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens, you and me, we are basically the same as people 10,000 years ago. The next revolution will change that. — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Homo sapiens conquered the world thanks above all to its unique language.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“technology. Homo sapiens is an obsolete algorithm. After all, what’s the advantage of” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Dataism thereby threatens to do to Homo sapiens what Homo sapiens has done to all other animals.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
When the first humans reached Australia about 45,000 years ago, they quickly drove to extinction 90% of its large animals. This was… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Homo sapiens does its best to forget the fact, but it is an animal. And it is doubly important to remember our… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Fishing villages might have appeared on the coasts of Indonesian islands as early as 45,000 years ago. These may have been the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Around the time that Homo sapiens was elevated to divine status by humanist religions, farm animals stopped being viewed as living creatures… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Tinkering with our genes won’t necessarily kill us. But we might fiddle with Homo sapiens to such an extent that we would… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“When the car replaced the horse-drawn carriage, we didn’t upgrade the horses – we retired them. Perhaps it is time to do… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“An algorithm is a methodical set of steps that can be used to make calculations, resolve problems and reach decisions. An algorithm… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whereas the Agricultural Revolution gave rise to theist religions, the Scientific Revolution gave birth to humanist religions, in which humans replaced gods.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Humans nowadays completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than the individual chimp or… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Yet why should individuals care about this evolutionary calculus? Why would any sane person lower his or her standard of living just… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“How did Homo sapiens manage to cross this critical threshold, eventually founding cities comprising tens of thousands of inhabitants and empires ruling… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Homo erectus, ‘Upright Man’, who survived there for close to 2 million years, making it the most durable human species ever. This… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Archaic humans paid for their large brains in two ways. Firstly, they spent more time in search of food. Secondly, their muscles… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It does not take much to provide the objective biological needs of Homo sapiens. After those needs are met, more money can… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Writing was born as the maidservant of human consciousness, but is increasingly becoming its master. Our computers have trouble understanding how Homo… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We normally think that theist religions sanctified the great gods. We tend to forget that they sanctified humans, too. Hitherto Homo sapiens… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The Frankenstein myth confronts Homo Sapiens with the fact that the last days are fast approaching. Unless some nuclear or ecological catastrophe… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Under the right circumstances myths can change rapidly. In 1789 the French population switched almost overnight from believing in the myth of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“A second theory agrees that our unique language evolved as a means of sharing information about the world. But the most important… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“To understand the rise of Christianity or the French Revolution, it is not enough to comprehend the interaction of genes, hormones and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Humans nowadays completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than the individual chimp or… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It’s a common fallacy to envision these species as arranged in a straight line of descent, with Ergaster begetting Erectus, Erectus begetting… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“After all, when ‘the Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become’ He resolved to ‘wipe from the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Whether Sapiens are to blame or not, no sooner had they arrived at a new location than the native population became extinct.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In the early twenty-first century the train of progress is again pulling out of the station – and this will probably be… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Timeline of History Years Before the Present 13.5 billion Matter and energy appear. Beginning of physics. Atoms and molecules appear. Beginning of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Until about 30,000 years ago, there were at least five other species of humans on the planet. Homo Sapiens, our ancestors, lived… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“fact, however, the lesson is just the opposite. The story demonstrates that by humanising animals we usually underestimate animal cognition and ignore… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens is a social being, and our well-being depends to a large extent on the quality and depth of our social… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“scenarios. But there are certainly good reasons to believe that if Homo sapiens had never gone Down Under, it would still be… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Homo sapiens drove to extinction about half of the planet’s big beasts long before humans invented the wheel, writing or iron tools.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“For similar reasons, archaic humans did not initiate any revolutions. As far as we can tell, changes in social patterns, the invention of new… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Today the main source of wealth is knowledge. And whereas you can conquer oil fields through war, you cannot acquire knowledge that way.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food. The advent of cooking enabled… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Whereas liberalism merged with the milder versions of nationalism to protect the unique experiences of each human community, evolutionary humanists such as Hitler identified… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Corporations, money and nations exist only in our imagination. We invented them to serve us; why do we find ourselves sacrificing our lives in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Small children in affluent societies often dislike showering, and it takes them years of education and parental discipline to adopt this supposedly attractive custom.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Ever more scholars see cultures as a kind of mental infection or parasite, with humans as its unwitting host. Organic parasites, such as viruses,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Soviet Communism was a fanatical and missionary religion. A devout Communist could not be a Christian or a Buddhist, and was expected to spread… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Terrorists are like a fly that tries to destroy a china shop. The fly is so weak that it cannot budge even a single… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“Yet what happens if the greedy shoemaker increases his profits by paying employees less and increasing their work hours? The standard answer is that… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
“A natural order is a stable order. There is no chance that gravity will cease to function tomorrow, even if people stop believing in… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share
