Tyler Ryan

“With the appearance of writing, we are beginning to hear history through the ears of its protagonists.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The only thing we can try to do is to influence the direction scientists are taking. But since we might soon be able to engineer our desires too, the real question facing us is not ‘What do we want to become?’, but ‘What do we want to want?’ Those who are not spooked by this question probably haven’t given it enough thought.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“There was nothing special about humans. Nobody, least of all humans themselves, had any inkling that their descendants would one day walk on the moon, split the atom, fathom the genetic code and write history books. The most important thing to know about prehistoric humans is that they were insignificant animals with no more impact on their environment than gorillas, fireflies or jellyfish.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The dead have nothing left to them but a silent faith in that unknowable infinity - even if theirs is a belief that nothing waits but an infinity of infinities. Because believing in nothing is still believing in something - and only by reaching eternity will anyone know the truth of it all.”
― Neal Shusterman, The Toll