"We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to……" — David Christian
"We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility."
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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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An egg is a beautiful, sophisticated thing that can create even more sophisticated things, such as chickens. And we know…
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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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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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More Complex Quotes
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India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex…
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I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more…
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The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its…
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The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and…
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Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty…
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The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're…
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification…
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Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.
— Sarah Brightman
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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex…
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The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
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I just like playing interesting, complex, complicated characters. I like films that also have an element of humor.
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