“We have no idea what the builders of Göbekli Tepe actually called the place. With the appearance of writing, we are beginning to hear history through the ears of its protagonists. When Kushim’s neighbours called out to him, they might really have shouted ‘Kushim!’ It is telling that the first recorded name in history belongs to an accountant, rather than a prophet, a poet or a great conqueror.1”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“Religion is not an exact science. Sometimes, of course, neither is science.”
― Nation
― Nation
“The days went by without incident and often without their name. When you'd unpacked the hours from the day and then the night and piled them all up, you could toss the boxes they came in, which is all that "Wednesday" or "Friday" really are.”
― Chronicle in Stone
― Chronicle in Stone
“When we break down our prison walls and run towards freedom, we are in fact running into the more spacious exercise yard of a bigger prison.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“It is hard to understand nothing, but the multiverse is full of it.”
― Raising Steam
― Raising Steam
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