Quotes about "Space & Cosmic Perspective"

You take fantasies, which for thousands of years belonged to the religious realm - overcoming death or our merging with the universe - and you suddenly start talking about them in a more technical perspective as something that can be achieved, not after you die with the help of supernatural beings, but in this very life with the help of technology. ”

Until about 30,000 years ago, there were at least five other species of humans on the planet. Homo Sapiens, our ancestors, lived mainly in East Africa, and you had the Neanderthal in Europe, Homo Erectus in part of Asia, and so forth. ”

Modernity is a deal. The entire contract can be summarised in a single phrase: humans agree to give up meaning in exchange for power. ”

Buddhism maintains that the common reaction of the human mind to pleasure and to achievement is not satisfaction; it's craving for more. ”

The basic human reaction to pleasure is not satisfaction, but rather craving for more. Hence, no matter what we achieve, it only increases our craving, not our satisfaction. ”

I think the basic thing that happened is we have lost our story. Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories. ”

Everybody since the '60s has been saying the nation is a fiction - the nation is an imaginary unity - but people didn't connect the dots and say all human endeavours sprang from the same principle. ”

Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories. ”

Dataism is a new ethical system that says, yes, humans were special and important because up until now they were the most sophisticated data processing system in the universe, but this is no longer the case. ”

Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing philanthropy in a structured way isn't yet in place in India. I already do a fair bit and support various causes such as education, sanitation, health. But selling costly drugs at affordable prices is philanthropy in itself. ”