Quotes About World

This is the deep reason secular people cherish scientific truth: not in order to satisfy their curiosity, but in order to know how best to reduce the suffering in the world.

Traditional racism is waning, but the world is now full of "culturists.

Facebook AI can not only identify 'meaningful communities', but also 'strengthen our social fabric and bring the world closer together'.

fictions. If you want to know the truth about the world, at some point you will have to renounce power. You will have to admit things—for example, about the sources of your own power—that will anger allies,

For millions upon millions of years, feelings were the best algorithms in the world. Hence in the days of Confucius, of Muhammad or of Stalin, people should have listened to their feelings rather than to the teachings of Confucianism, Islam or communism. Yet

You may not agree with the idea that organisms are algorithms, and that giraffes, tomatoes and human beings are just different methods for processing data. But you should know that this is current scientific dogma, and it is changing our world beyond recognition.

Movements seeking to change the world often begin by rewriting history, thereby enabling people to reimagine the future.

Science can explain what exists in the world, how things work, and what might be in the future. By definition, it has no pretensions to knowing what should be in the future. Only religions and ideologies seek to answer such questions.

In the Afro-Asian world from which the Spaniards came, the obsession for gold was indeed an epidemic.

Five modern freighters could have taken onboard all the cargo borne by the whole world's merchant fleets.5

today's world, information and attention are critical assets. It is crazy to give up your attention for free, and to get in exchange only low-quality information. If you are willing to pay for high-quality food, clothes, and cars—why aren't you willing to pay for high-quality information?

El sincretismo, en realidad, podría ser la gran y única religión del mundo.

First, capitalism has created a world that nobody but a capitalist is capable of running. The only serious attempt to manage the world differently – Communism – was so much worse in almost every conceivable way that nobody has the stomach to try again.

Qué potencial desarrolló Europa a principios del período moderno que le permitió dominar el mundo moderno tardío? Hay dos respuestas complementarias a esta pregunta: la ciencia moderna y el capitalismo. Los

O algoritmo de pesquisa do Google tem gostos muito sofisticados no que toca a hierarquizar as páginas dos vendedores de gelados, e os vendedores de gelados mais bem-sucedidos do mundo são os que o algoritmo de pesquisa do Google mostra em primeiro lugar – não os que produzem o gelado mais saboroso.

It is dangerous to trust or future to market forces, because these forces do what's good for the market rather than what's good for humankind or for the world.

The story of the luxury trap carries with it an important lesson. Humanity's search for an easier life released immense forces of change that transformed the world in ways nobody envisioned or wanted.

the world is full of misery, it is our duty to find solutions.

En un mundo inundado de información irrelevante, la claridad es poder.

secular world judges people on the basis of their behavior rather than their favorite clothes and ceremonies.

Animists thought that humans were just one of many creatures inhabiting the world. Polytheists, on the other hand, increasingly saw the world as a reflection of the relationship between gods and humans.

El arte desempeña un papel clave en dar forma a la visión que la gente tiene del mundo,

For the merchants, the entire world was a single market and all humans were potential customers. They tried to establish an economic order that would apply to all, everywhere. For the conquerors, the entire world was a single empire and all humans were potential subjects, and for the prophets, the entire world held a single truth and all humans were potential believers. They too tried to establish an order that would be applicable for everyone everywhere.

The imagined order is embedded in the material world.