“essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Nitrogen-based fertilizers, which came into wide use after World War II, helped prompt the agricultural revolution that has allowed the Earth to… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
“The dog was the first animal domesticated by Homo sapiens, and this occurred before the Agricultural Revolution.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions. Yet” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution left farmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“From a narrow evolutionary perspective, which measures success by the number of DNA copies, the Agricultural Revolution was a wonderful boon for… — 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
“That tale is a fantasy. There is no evidence that people became more intelligent with time. Foragers knew the secrets of nature… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The average farmer worked harder than the average forager, and got a worse diet in return. The Agricultural Revolution was history’s biggest… — 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
“Indeed, techno-humanism may end up downgrading humans. The system may prefer downgraded humans not because they would possess any superhuman knacks, but… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“It has happened that a species has tried to live in violation of the Law of Limited Competition. Or rather it has… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Ancient foragers also suffered less from infectious diseases. Most of the infectious diseases that have plagued agricultural and industrial societies (such as… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This… — Bill Drayton Copy Share Image
“Only when we began to eat cereals at the start of the agricultural revolution, and most especially when our ancestral food choices… — Tim Noakes Copy Share Image
“In many cases, this doomed the refugees to starvation. Farmers, therefore, tended to stay put and fight to the bitter end. 12.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Three important revolutions shaped the course of history: the Cognitive Revolution kick-started history about 70,000 years ago. The Agricultural Revolution sped it… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Remember the Tenth Commandment: "Thou shalt not covert thy neighbors house, thou shalt not covert thy neighbors wife, nor his manservant, nor… — Cacilda Jethá Copy Share Image
“In the past few years, genetics have confirmed that the hunter-gatherers were not overwhelmed by the new wave of sedentary farmers, and… — Markham Shaw Pyle Copy Share Image
“The modern educational system provides numerous other examples of reality bowing down to written records. When measuring the width of my desk,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The agricultural revolution transformed the earth and changed the fate of humanity. It produced an entirely new mode of subsistence, which remains… — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
“The conditions necessary for devastating epidemics or pandemics just didn't exist until the agricultural revolution. The claim that modern medicine and sanitation… — Cacilda Jethá Copy Share Image
Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new… — G. Harry Stine Copy Share Image
“Scholars once proclaimed that the agricultural revolution was a great leap forward for humanity. They told a tale of progress fuelled by… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
“Three important revolutions shaped the course of history: the Cognitive Revolution kick-started history about 70,000 years ago. The Agricultural Revolution sped it… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“alongside seas and rivers rich in seafood and waterfowl, humans set up permanent fishing villages – the first permanent settlements in history,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“less in danger of starvation and disease. The Agricultural Revolution certainly enlarged the sum total of food at the disposal of humankind,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
However, the agricultural revolution took thousands of years, the Industrial Revolution took hundreds, and the information revolution only took decades. So, who… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
Mankind had the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and now this third one, the information revolution. — Masayoshi Son Copy Share Image
“Estimates are that the hunter-gatherers who were all but wiped out by the agricultural revolution numbered around 2 million 12,000 years ago.… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
“After 1908, and especially after 1945, capitalist greed was somewhat reined in, not least due to the fear of Communism. Yet inequities… — 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
![“Remember the Tenth Commandment: "Thou shalt not covert thy neighbors house, thou shalt not covert thy neighbors wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox,nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbor's." Clearly, the biggest loser (aside from slaves, perhaps) in the…” quote by Cacilda Jethá](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/73f/cacilda-jeth-44451_biggest-loser_remember-the-tenth-commandment-thou-shal_2349702.jpg)
![“[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work begun by those neolithic farmers in the Near East has been carried forward from one generation to the next without a single break, right into the…” quote by Daniel Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/007/daniel-quinn-1786_break_y-our-agricultural-revolution-is-not-an_1828089.jpg)
