"An egg is a beautiful, sophisticated thing that……" — David Christian
"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 that the universe does not travel from mush to complexity. In fact, this gut instinct is reflected in one of the most fundamental laws of physics, the second law of thermodynamics, or the law of entropy."
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12 Quotes by David Christian
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I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular…
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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…
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Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within…
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Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world…
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Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This…
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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…
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We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity…
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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…
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