¡°Sapiens tackles the biggest questions of history and of the modern world, and it is written in unforgettably vivid language.¡± (Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel, Collapse, and The World until Yesterday)
¡°Sapiens is learned, thought-provoking and crisply written¡¦. Fascinating.¡± (Wall Street Journal)
¡°In Sapiens, Harari delves deep into our history as a species to help us understand who we are and what made us this way. An engrossing read.¡± (Dan Ariely, New York Times Bestselling author of Predictably Irrational, The Upside of Irrationality, and The Honest Truth About Dishonesty)
¡°Yuval Noah Harari¡¯s celebrated Sapiens does for human evolution what Stephen Hawking¡¯s A Brief History of Time did for physics.¡¦ He does a superb job of outlining our slow emergence and eventual domination of the planet.¡± (Forbes)
¡°[I]nteresting and provocative¡¦It gives you a sense of perspective on how briefly we¡¯ve been on this earth, how short things like agriculture and science have been around, and why it makes sense for us to not take them for granted.¡± (President Barack Obama)
¡°I would recommend this book to anyone interested in a fun, engaging look at early human history¡¦you¡¯ll have a hard time putting it down.¡± (Bill Gates)
¡°Thank God someone finally wrote [this] exact book.¡± (Sebastian Junger)
¡°Sapiens takes readers on a sweeping tour of the history of our species¡¦. Harari¡¯s formidable intellect sheds light on the biggest breakthroughs in the human story¡¦important reading for serious-minded, self-reflective sapiens.¡± (Washington Post)
¡°It is one of the best accounts by a Homo sapiens of the unlikely story of our violent, accomplished species.¡¦It is one hell of a story. And it has seldom been told better¡¦. Compulsively readable and impossibly learned.¡± (Michael Gerson, Washington Post)
¡°This was the most surprising and thought-provoking book I read this year.¡± (Atlantic.com)