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In literature classes, you don't learn about genes; in physics classes you don't learn about human evolution. So you get a fragmented view of the world. That makes it hard to find meaning in education.
- David Christian
#Education
#Find
#Literature
#View
#World
When very large stars die, they create temperatures so high that protons begin to fuse in all sorts of exotic combinations, to form all the elements of the periodic table. If, like me, you're wearing a gold ring, it was forged in a supernova explosion.
- David Christian
#Create
#Die
#Gold
#Me
#Stars
Gravity is more powerful where there's more stuff.
- David Christian
#Gravity
#More
#Powerful
#Stuff
#Where
Our goal is to see Big History become a normal part of high school curricula. I'd love to see it being taught in lots of languages. A global course.
- David Christian
#High School
#History
#Love
#School
#See
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
#Know
#Place
#Questions
#School
#Universe
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
#Feeling
#History
#Humanity
#Just
#Ought
If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.
- David Christian
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#Myths
#Someone
#Tell
#Will
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.
- David Christian
#Avoid
#Crisis
#Living
#Remember
#Waiting
Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals.
- David Christian
#Chemicals
#Chemistry
#Huge
#Living
What we normally define as history doesn't interest me. It's a constraint.
- David Christian
#Define
#History
#Interest
#Me
#Normally
All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.
- David Christian
#All Religions
#Indigenous
#Map
#Origin
We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates complexity and why complexity means vulnerability and fragility.
- David Christian
#Know
#Need
#Universe
#Vulnerability
#Why
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.
- David Christian
#Details
#History
#Knowledge
#World
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.
- David Christian
#Face
#History
#Learning
#Nature
#Power
Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it.
- David Christian
#Big
#Everything
#History
#Way
#World
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