Science Quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

“Science is unable to set its own priorities. It is also incapable of determining what to do with its discoveries.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“However, only rarely do scientists dictate the scientific agenda.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Scientific Revolution has not been a revolution of knowledge. It has been above all a revolution of ignorance.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“as collective institutions, science and religion prefer order and power over truth.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Earlier traditions usually formulated their theories in terms of stories. Modern science uses mathematics”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Yet the connection between science and empire went much deeper.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“There are no gods, no nations, no money and no human rights, except in our collective imagination.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“The world’s military forces initiate, fund and steer a large part of humanity’s scientific research and technological development.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Modern-day science is a unique tradition of knowledge, inasmuch as it openly admits collective ignorance regarding the most important questions.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

“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

“The idea of progress is built on the notion that if we admit our ignorance and invest resources in research, things can…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Science, industry and military technology intertwined only with the advent of the capitalist system and the Industrial Revolution. Once this relationship was…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The Scientific Revolution has not been a revolution of knowledge. It has been above all a revolution of ignorance. The great discovery…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“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

“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

“However, over the last few decades the life sciences have reached the conclusion that this liberal story is pure mythology. The single…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Biologists invent the contraceptive pill – and the Pope doesn’t know what to do about it. Computer scientists develop the Internet –…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“1. Science is converging on an all-encompassing dogma, which says that organisms are algorithms, and life is data processing. 2. Intelligence is…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“But the single most remarkable and defining moment of the past 500 years came at 05:29:45 on 16 July 1945. At that…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“Finally, some scientists concede that consciousness is real and may actually have great moral and political value, but that it fulfils no…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In the nineteenth century, scientists described brains and minds as if they were steam engines. Why steam engines? Because that was the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“According to current scientific dogma, everything I experience is the result of electrical activity in my brain, and it should therefore be…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“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

“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

“Religion is interested above all in order. It aims to create and maintain the social structure. Science is interested above all in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We often associate science with the values of secularism and tolerance. If so, early modern Europe is the last place you would…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Such racist theories, prominent and respectable for many decades, have become anathema among scientists and politicians alike. People continue to conduct a…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“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

“In the nineteenth century, scientists described brains and minds as if they were steam engines. Why steam engines? Because that was the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“The real nemesis of the modern economy is ecological collapse. Both scientific progress and economic growth take place within a brittle biosphere,…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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