“single overarching theory that unifies all the scientific disciplines from musicology through economics to biology. According to Dataism, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, a… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Leave science out of it and live in accordance with a non-scientific absolute truth. This has been the strategy of liberal humanism,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The world’s military forces initiate, fund and steer a large part of humanity’s scientific research and technological development.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Scientists usually assume that no theory is 100 per cent correct. Consequently, truth is a poor test for knowledge. The real test… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“as collective institutions, science and religion prefer order and power over truth.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The scientists not only sanctified human feelings, but also found an excellent evolutionary reason to do so. After Darwin, biologists began explaining… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Today, the 4-billion-year-old regime of natural selection is facing a completely different challenge. In laboratories throughout the world, scientists are engineering living… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Myths continue to dominate humankind, and science only makes these myths stronger. Instead of destroying the intersubjective reality, science will enable it… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Yet the connection between science and empire went much deeper.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The scientific project starts by rejecting the fantasy of infallibility and proceeding to construct an information network that takes error to be… — 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
“Planck famously said that science advances one funeral at a time. He meant that only when one generation passes away do new… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“To the best of our scientific understanding, determinism and randomness have divided the entire cake between them, leaving not even a crumb… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Every religion, ideology and creed has its shadow, and no matter which creed you follow you should acknowledge your shadow and avoid… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Modern-day science is a unique tradition of knowledge, inasmuch as it openly admits collective ignorance regarding the most important questions.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Simultaneously, scientists have studied the mental states of people considered to be healthy and normative. However, most relevant researches have been conducted… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“1.Science is converging on an all-encompassing dogma, which says that organisms are algorithms and life is data processing. 2.Intelligence is decoupling from… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“This was the basis for the modern alliance between science and humanism, which kept the delicate balance between the modern yang and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Science is telling us that the reason people die is not because some god said so or because the laws of nature… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Even if bad comes to worse and science cannot hold off the deluge, engineers could still build a hi-tech Noah’s Ark for… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The willingness to admit ignorance has made modern science more dynamic, supple and inquisitive than any previous tradition of knowledge. This has… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The history of science is replete with abandoned concepts and theories. For instance, early modern scientists who tried to account for the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“If scientific discoveries and technological developments split humankind into a mass of useless humans and a small elite of upgraded superhumans, or… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Scientific Revolution has not been a revolution of knowledge. It has been above all a revolution of ignorance.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“An institution can call itself by whatever name it wants, but if it lacks a strong self-correcting mechanism, it is not a… — 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
