David Christian Quotes

• ...from schools to universities to research institutes, we teach about origins in disconnected fragments. We seem incapable of offering a unified account of how things came to be the way they are.

  David Christian

  School, Offering, Research

  David Christian (2011). “Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History”, p.2, Univ of California Press

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• Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

  David Christian

  Maps, Creation, Modern

  David Christian (2011). “Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History”, p.2, Univ of California Press

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• I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent' properties are not magical. They are really there and eventually they may start re-arranging the environments that generated them. But they don't exist 'in' the bits and pieces that made them; they emerge from the arrangement of those bits and pieces in very precise ways. And that is also true of the emergent entities known as "you" and "me".

  David Christian

  May, Way, Pieces

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