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Understanding algorithms is crucial for understanding the modern world.

From The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos

Understanding finance is essential to understanding the modern world.

From The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson

Being-in-the-world is a fundamental characteristic of Dasein.

From Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

Religion is not a separate compartment of life; it is a way of seeing the world.

From The World's Religions by Huston Smith

To know one big thing is to perceive the world in a very specific way.

From The Hedgehog and the Fox by Isaiah Berlin

There is no reality except the one contained within us.

From At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell

The world is full of things that are not logically coherent.

From Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky

To understand religion is to understand the world.

From God Is Not One by Stephen Prothero

The language of causation is essential for making sense of the world.

From The Book of Why by Judea Pearl

Mathematics is not just a collection of rules and symbols; it is a language that describes the world.

From The Annotated Turing by Charles Petzold

We are not going to save the world; we are going to make it beautiful.

From The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

Understanding algorithms is key to understanding our world.

From The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos

The sacred is a manifestation of the divine in the world.

From The Sacred and The Profane by Mircea Eliade

The world is a tapestry of interconnectedness.

From The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson

Each religion offers a unique lens through which to view the world.

From God Is Not One by Stephen Prothero

Understanding the world requires understanding the elements that make it up.

From The Disappearing Spoon: Young Readers Edition by Sam Kean

What is at stake in a paradigm shift is not just a change of mind, but a change in the world.

From The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn

When paradigms change, the world itself changes with them.

From The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn

For centuries, the world was a vast and mysterious place.

From Longitude by Dava Sobel

Human thought is deeply intertwined with the physical world.

From The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose