David Christian Quotes

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• I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of…
• An egg is a beautiful, sophisticated thing that can create even more sophisticated things, such as chickens. And we know in our heart of hearts…
• Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals.
• I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big…
• Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.
• Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there…
• Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us the power, in…
• Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort of energy revolution.
• I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of…
• We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.
• All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.
• Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past.

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