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born 1976 Israel

Yuval Noah Harari (Hebrew: יובל נח הררי; born 24 February 1976) is an Israeli professor of history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind.

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Also known as: Yuval Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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If AI can suffer, then it is an ethical subject and it needs protection, it needs rights, just like humans and animals.

The willingness to admit ignorance has made modern science more dynamic, supple and inquisitive than any previous tradition of knowledge.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

Obesity is a double victory for consumerism. Instead of eating little, which will lead to economic contraction, people eat too much and then buy diet products—contributing to economic growth twice over.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

Wars are not a pub brawl. They are complex projects that require an extraordinary degree of organisation, cooperation and appeasement.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

Capital consists of money, goods and resources that are invested in production. Wealth, on the other hand, is buried in the ground or wasted on unproductive activities.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

Fishing villages might have appeared on the coasts of Indonesian islands as early as 45,000 years ago.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

Worldwide, wheat covers about 2.25 million square kilometres of the globe's surface, almost ten times the size of Britain.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

A new branch of mathematics was developed over the last 200 years to deal with the more complex aspect of reality: statistics.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

It may well be that when Sapines encountered Neanderthals, the result was the first and most significant ethnic-cleansing campaign in history.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

The domesticated chicken is the most widespread fowl ever.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

Raping a woman who did not belong to any man was not considered a crime at all, just as picking up a lost coin on a busy street is not considered theft.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

But when particularly complex societies began to appear in the wake of the Agricultural Revolution, a completely new type of information became vital - numbers.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

The journey of the first humans to Australia is one of the most important events in history, at least as important as Columbus' journey to America or Apollo 11 expedition to the moon.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

The settlers of Australia, or more accurately, its conquerors, didn't just adapt. They transformed the Australian ecosystem beyond recognition.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

People everywhere have divided themselves into men and women. And almost everywhere men have got the better deal, at least since the Agricultural Revolution.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

Christians slaughtered Christians by the millions to defend slightly different interpretations of the religion of love and compassion.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

Money is accordingly, a system of mutual trust, and not just any system of mutual trust: money is most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

International wars became rare only after 1945, largely thanks to the new threat of nuclear annihilation.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

We have the dubious distinction of being the deadliest species in the annals of biology.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

The undisputed monarch of all science was theology.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Yuval Noah Harari (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.