Gregor Smith

“scientific research can flourish only in alliance with some religion or ideology. The ideology justifies the costs of the research. In exchange, the ideology influences the scientific agenda and determines what to do with the discoveries.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“In Iowa the land is flat and the people are fat. Like petrol-driven bowling balls they roll across the plains, occasionaly slotting into the groove of a roadway, then rattling to a halt at fast-food joints where they are served with paper cups of 7 Up or Coke the size of oil drums, haystack hamburgers and stooks of fries.”
― Will Self, Psychogeography: Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place

“The humanities and social sciences devote most of their energies to explaining exactly how the imagined order is woven into the tapestry of life.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“To travel from place to place is to travel through time, and in every place the quality of time is different. Here, now it seemed to stretch in all directions. And I felt I understood why the Prophet Muhammad had ordained the observance of prayer five times a day' to act as markers for the faithful to lead them through the desert of eternity.”
― Peregrine Hodson