Joshua Campos

“Because plants set the foundation upon which all other organisms, from microbes and fungi to insects and birds, depend, destroying plant communities causes disastrous ripples that reverberate throughout the entire biosphere of our planet.”
― Matt Candeias, In Defense of Plants: An Exploration into the Wonder of Plants

“There is an important cognitive and ethical component to happiness. Our values make all the difference to whether we see ourselves as ‘miserable slaves to a baby dictator’ or as ‘lovingly nurturing a new life’. As Nietzsche put it, if you have a why to live, you can bear almost any how. A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship, whereas a meaningless life is a terrible ordeal no matter how comfortable it is.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Physicists define the Big Bang as a singularity. It is a point at which all the known laws of nature did not exist. Time too did not exist. It is thus meaningless to say that anything existed ‘before’ the Big Bang.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“There’s a very common claim that I see repeated all the time on social media that the Bible is sixty-six books that were written by forty-five different authors, in three different languages, across three different continents, and over the course of around 1,500 years. This is based on the assumption that every last syllable of the Bible is historically accurate, though, and from the point of view of critical scholarship, it’s only partly correct. It would be more accurate to say that more than one hundred authors and even more editors wrote, edited, and compiled the Bible in three different languages, across two different continents, over the course of somewhere around 1,100 years.”
― Dan McClellan, The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture's Most Controversial Issues