Gaurav

“When the nuclear age erupted in the 1940s, many forecasts were made about the future nuclear world of the year 2000. When sputnik and Apollo 11 fired the imagination of the world, everyone began predicting that by the end of the century, people would be living in space colonies on Mars and Pluto. Few of these forecasts came true. On the other hand, nobody foresaw the Internet.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Smith’s claim that the selfish human urge to increase private profits is the basis for collective wealth is one of the most revolutionary ideas in human history – revolutionary not just from an economic perspective, but even more so from a moral and political perspective. What Smith says is, in fact, that greed is good, and that by becoming richer I benefit everybody, not just myself. Egoism is altruism.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Consumerism and nationalism work extra hours to make us imagine that millions of strangers belong to the same community as ourselves, that we all have a common past, common interests and a common future. This isn’t a lie. It’s imagination. Like money, limited liability companies and human rights, nations and consumer tribes are inter-subjective realities. They exist only in our collective imagination, yet their power is immense.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“The willingness to admit ignorance has made modern science more dynamic, supple and inquisitive than any previous tradition of knowledge.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind