“Money comes to money, and poverty to poverty. Education comes to education, and ignorance to ignorance.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Like a government diverting money from defense to education, humans diverted energy from biceps to neurons.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“I teach the kids history, or quantum physics, or art – but above all I try to teach them to think for themselves.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If pupils suffer from attention disorders, stress and low grades, perhaps we ought to blame outdated teaching methods, overcrowded classrooms and an… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has ever dealt with the tax authorities, the educational system or any other complex bureaucracy knows that the truth hardly… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Small children in affluent societies often dislike showering, and it takes them years of education and parental discipline to adopt this supposedly… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“For millions upon millions of years, feelings were the best algorithms in the world. Hence in the days of Confucius, of Muhammad… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Traditionally, life has been divided into two main parts: a period of learning followed by a period of working. Very soon, this… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“so why study history? unlike physics and economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“So why study history? Unlike physics or economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Traditionally, life has been divided into two main parts: a period of learning followed by a period of working. Very soon this… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“So why study history? Unlike physics or economics, history is not a means for making accurate predictions. We study history not to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The individual will not be crushed by Big Brother; it will disintegrate from within. Today corporations and governments pay homage to my… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Since we do not know what the job market will look like in 2030 or 2040, already today we have no idea… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“When they enter the classroom, however, they may well discover that the algorithms have got there first. Companies such as Mindojo are… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
