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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…
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An egg is a beautiful, sophisticated thing that can create even more sophisticated things, such as chickens. And we know in our…
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Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals.
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I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the…
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Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.
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Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living…
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Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us…
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Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort of energy revolution.
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I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of…
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We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability…
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All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.
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Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of…
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When you factor in population growth, it's clear that the mobility model that we have today simply will not work tomorrow. Four…
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Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey…
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It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we…
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Four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.
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Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct.…
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You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does…
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Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!
— Brian Swimme
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For the first time in four billion years a living creature had contemplated himself and heard with a sudden, unaccountable loneliness, the…
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Nature is flexible and resilient. Nature likes redundancy and dispersion. It is approximate and deals in gradients. All boundaries are permeable. Nature…
— Unknown Author
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We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.
— Gary Hamel
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Mathematicians aren't satisfied because they know there are no solutions up to four million or four billion, they really want to know…
— Andrew Wiles
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The genome is a book that wrote itself, continually adding, deleting and amending over four billion years.
— Matt Ridley
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