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.

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• David Christian:

  We, as extremely complex creatures, desperately need to know this story of how the universe creates

• David Christian:

  All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.

• David Christian:

  Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neg

• David Christian:

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

• David Christian:

  If historians don't tell stories at the scales of creation myths, someone else will.

• David Christian:

  We inhabit an obscure planet, in an obscure galaxy, around an obscure sun, but on the other hand, m

• David Christian:

  I remember very vividly, as a child growing up in England, living through the Cuban Missile Crisis.

• David Christian:

  If, in schools, we keep teaching that history is divided into American history and Chinese history

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  I have this fantasy that in future negotiations over climate change - instead of going into that ro

• David Christian:

  Big History's not going to replace existing educational courses. It's not an attack on specialisati