Yuval Noah Harari

[T]he Great Survey of India... lasted sixty years. ...[T]he British ...mapped the whole of India, marking borders... and calculating... the... height of Mount Everest and other Himalayan peaks.

[T]he Frankenstein story appears to warn... that if we try to... engineer life we will be punished...

[F]or the vast majority of domesticated animals, the Agricultural Revolution was a terrible catastrophe.

Capitalism distinguishes 'capital' from mere 'wealth'. Capital consists of... resources... invested in production. Wealth... is buried... or wasted on unproductive activities.

The Industrial Revolution turned the time table and the assembly line into a template... [S]chools... adopted... timetables, followed by hospitals, government offices and grocery stores. ...[I]n places devoid of assembly lines and machines, the timetable became king.

Ours is the first time in history that the world is dominated by a peace-loving elite - politicians, business people, intellectuals and artists who genuinely see war as both evil and avoidable.

As long as millions of Germans believe in... a German nation, get excited at... national symbols, retell... national myths, and... sacrifice money, time and limbs for the... nation, Germany will remain one of the strongest powers...

The first commercial train service began operating between Liverpool and Manchester in 1830.

Scientists believe that we will soon have bionic arms that will... be able to transmit signals back to the brain... enabling... the sense of touch.

There is nothing new about biological engineering per se. People have been using it for millennia...

[R]eligion has been the third great unifier... alongside money and empire.

[P]ostmodernist thinkers describe nationalism as a deadly plague that spread... in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, causing wars, oppression, hate and genocide.