Bobby

“Modernity is a surprisingly simple deal. The entire contract can be summarized in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange for power.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“If any scientist wants to argue that subjective experiences are irrelevant, their challenge is to explain why torture or rape are wrong without reference to any subjective experience.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“During the Agricultural Revolution humankind silenced animals and plants, and turned the animist grand opera into a dialogue between man and gods. During the Scientific Revolution humankind silenced the gods too.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

“They might have recognized in their strange companion what some of today's middle-aged recognize in the young electronics visionaries... a man who, though part of their world, still had a view that was somehow larger than theirs, that he had firm sight of a future that he somehow knew was better, as well as being a future that was definably different and, most crucially, utterly unlike the world of the present.”
― Simon Winchester, The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology