"...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."
"Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth."
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Source: David Christian (2011). “Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History”, p.2, Univ of California Press
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