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The Gene: An Intimate History

by Siddhartha Mukherjee

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Mar 11, 2019 01:05AM

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How Much Land Does a Man Need?

by Leo Tolstoy

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Jun 30, 2019 02:26PM

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Normal People by Sally Rooney

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That’s money, the substance that makes the world real. There’s something so corrupt and sexy about it.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

by Yuval Noah Harari

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“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”
― Edward O. Wilson

tags: crisis, emotions, flaws, human-beings, humanity, humans, institutions, people, problems, technology

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“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

tags: cosmology, delusion, knowledge, religion, science, truth, understanding

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“In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

[Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos]”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos