Gardening Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“The culprits were a handful of plant species, including wheat, rice and potatoes. These plants domesticated Homo sapiens, rather than vice versa.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The dog was the first animal domesticated by Homo sapiens, and this occurred before the Agricultural Revolution.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“When Charles Darwin indicated that Homo sapiens was just another kind of animal, people were outraged.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Yet why should individuals care about this evolutionary calculus? Why would any sane person lower his or her standard of living just to multiply…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Homo sapiens drove to extinction about half of the planet’s big beasts long before humans invented the wheel, writing or iron tools.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Dataism thereby threatens to do to Homo sapiens what Homo sapiens has done to all other animals.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

When the first humans reached Australia about 45,000 years ago, they quickly drove to extinction 90% of its large animals. This was the first…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“To understand the rise of Christianity or the French Revolution, it is not enough to comprehend the interaction of genes, hormones and organisms. It…

— Yuval Noah Harari

We are probably one of the last generations of Homo sapiens.

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Seventy thousand years ago, Homo sapiens was still an insignificant animal minding its own business in a corner of Africa. In the following millennia…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Humans nowadays completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than the individual chimp or wolf, but…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“An algorithm is a methodical set of steps that can be used to make calculations, resolve problems and reach decisions. An algorithm isn’t a…

— Yuval Noah Harari