Biology enables, Culture forbids.Yuval Noah Harari
Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural.Yuval Noah Harari
Every point in history is a crossroads. A single travelled road leads from the past to the present, but myriad paths fork off into the future.Yuval Noah Harari
The human brain is a complex of cognitive mechanisms. Humans are able to learn, remember, and invent new technologies. We are also able to cooperate in small groups and large groups. We can reason causally and we can reason counterfactually.Yuval Noah Harari
In a single stroke, the Agricultural Revolution changed the entire lot of humankind.Yuval Noah Harari
You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.Yuval Noah Harari
We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.Yuval Noah Harari
How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari