Author: David Christian

Quotes

Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort of energy revolution.

Learning to domesticate the horse was a sort of energy revolution.

- David Christian

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

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

- David Christian

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.

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.

- David Christian

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.

- David Christian

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.

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.

- David Christian

I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history.

I think what I was after was a unifying story that could bring everything together, that could give me a sense of the whole of history.

- David Christian

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