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David Christian Quotes

American - Historian | June 30, 1946 -

All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.

David Christian

You Map Religions Origin Traditions

Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals.

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Living Chemistry Chemicals Created

Gravity is more powerful where there's more stuff.

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Powerful Gravity More Where Stuff

Modern scientific knowledge appeared piecemeal. Historians wrote about human history; physicists tackled the material world; and biologists studied the world of living organisms. But there were few links between these disciplines, as researchers focused on getting the details right.

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Knowledge History World Details

I remember very vividly, as a child growing up in England, living through the Cuban Missile Crisis. For a few days, the entire biosphere seemed to be on the verge of destruction. And the same weapons are still here, and they're still armed. If we avoid that trap, others are waiting for us.

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Child Waiting Growing Up Remember

We inhabit an obscure planet, in an obscure galaxy, around an obscure sun, but on the other hand, modern human society represents one of the most complex things we know.

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Sun Society Know Hand Galaxy Human

Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us the power, in principle, to build societies in which everyone flourishes. But it also creates great dangers because it is not clear that we really understand how to use our potentially devastating powers.

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Life Power Great Earth Understand

I believe human beings mark a threshold in the development of the planet, of course, but it is only part of the picture. What Big History can do is show us the nature of our complexity and fragility and the dangers that face us, but it can also show us our power, with collective learning.

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Nature Learning Power History Face

Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.

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History World Way Everything Within

We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.

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Story Universe Know Why Need Means

I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.

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History Humanity Feeling Just Ought

Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be a human being? What are human beings?' Existing courses cannot help you answer those questions. They can't even help you ask them.

David Christian

School Universe Questions Help You

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