The ability to speak about fictions is the most unique feature of Sapiens language.

One of history’s few iron laws is that luxuries tend to become necessities and to spawn new obligations.

You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.

Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural.

This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions.

In the future, whoever controls the data controls the future not just of humanity, but the future of life itself.

The romantic contrast between modern industry that destroys nature and our ancestors who lived in harmony with nature is largely a myth.