“what we call cultural evolution is essentially a constant growing and widening of the human imagination.”
― The Ascent Of Man
― The Ascent Of Man
“People just want to believe. Otherwise they would have to admit that life is just a random series of good and bad things that happen until one day you die.”
― The Sun is Also a Star
― The Sun is Also a Star
“Knowledge … is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.”
― The Ascent Of Man
― The Ascent Of Man
“But truth, when it’s being lived, is less glamorous than our imaginings.”
― The Palace of Illusions
― The Palace of Illusions
“The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. Civilisation is not a collection of finished artefacts, it is the elaboration of processes. In the end, the march of man is the refinement of the hand in action.”
― The Ascent Of Man
― The Ascent Of Man
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