Quotes from Yuval Noah Harari

engineer genius mice that display much-improved memory and learning skills.

If you told people in the Middle Ages that within a few centuries God will be dead, they would have been horrified. 'How can we live without God? Who will give life meaning and protect us from chaos?' Looking

Como todo el mundo sabe, desde tiempos antiguos hasta hoy, los amanuenses y contables piensan de una manera no humana.

Homo sapiens has no natural rights, just as spiders, hyenas and chimpanzees have no natural rights. But

It is liberal politics that believes the voter knows best. Liberal art holds that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Liberal economics maintains that the customer is always right. Liberal ethics advises us that if it feels good, we should go ahead and do it. Liberal education teaches us to think for ourselves, because we will find all the answers within.

In the eighth chapter of its first volume, Smith made the following novel argument: when a landlord, a weaver, or a shoemaker has greater profits than he needs to maintain his own family, he uses the surplus to employ more assistants, in order to further increase his profits.

mundane feelings of heat and itching are every bit as mysterious as feelings of rapture or cosmic oneness.

Com o envelhecimento da população e o decréscimo da taxa de natalidade, cuidar de idosos tenderá a ser um dos setores de maior crescimento no mercado de trabalho humano.

the American founding document promises that if humans act according to its sacred principles, millions of them would be able to cooperate effectively, living safely and peacefully in a just and prosperous society

Tamamen bilimsel bir bak?? aç?s?yla bilebildi?imiz kadar?yla, insan ya?am?n?n hiçbir anlam? yoktur. ?nsanlar belirli bir amac? olmayan ve körlemesine ilerleyen evrimsel süreçlerin sonucudur ve faaliyetlerimiz ilahi bir kozmik plan?n parças? de?ildir.

The new ethic promises paradise on condition that the rich remain greedy and spend their time making more money, and that the masses give free rein to their cravings and passions – and buy more and more. This

En resumen, mientras que el nacionalismo me enseña que mi nación es única y que tengo obligaciones especiales para con ella, el fascismo dice que mi nación es suprema y que debo a mi nación obligaciones exclusivas.

Pain is pain, fear is fear, and love is love—even in the matrix.

Yet as noted earlier, economic entrepreneurship will have to be accompanied by a revolution in education and psychology.

Egoism is altruism.

Dogs that were most attentive to the needs and feelings of their human companions got extra care and food, and were more likely to survive.

One can hope—with some justification—that the takeover of the Crimea and the Russian incursions in Georgia and eastern Ukraine will remain isolated examples rather than harbingers of a new era of war.

happiness depends on expectations rather than objective conditions. We don't become satisfied by leading a peaceful and prosperous existence. Rather, we become satisfied when reality matches our expectations.

De repente damos muestra de un interés sin precedentes por la suerte de las llamadas formas de vida inferiores, quizá porque estamos a punto de convertirnos en una de ellas.

So what should we be teaching? Many pedagogical experts argue that schools should switch to teaching "the four Cs"—critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity.3 More

The second explanation is that by the time Sapiens reached Australia, they had already mastered fire agriculture. Faced with an alien and threatening environment, it seems that they deliberately burned vast areas of impassable thickets and dense forests to create open grasslands, which attracted more easily hunted game, and were better suited to their needs. They thereby completely changed the ecology of large parts of Australia

El dinero es el más universal y más eficiente sistema de confianza mutua que jamás se haya inventado.

Those who resent the mutilation of Indian culture by the British Raj inadvertently sanctify the legacies of the Mughal Empire and the conquering sultanate of Delhi.

The real test of 'knowledge' is not whether it is true, but whether it empowers us. Scientists usually assume that no theaory is 100 per cent correct. Consequently, thruth is a poor test for knowledge. The real test is utility. A theory that enables us to do new things constitutes knowledge.