Michael Stevens (educator)
7 quotes
"Hey Vsauce, Michael here."
"And as always, thanks for watching."
"The pyramids of Giza were as old to the ancient Romans as the ancient Romans are to us."
"Compared to what human life has mainly been like here on earth, our current societies are WEIRD."
"What I'm trying to say is... I'm not going to say, "I hate" anything I ever made — but I will say this: My mother is much more proud of what I do now than all of the fart-joke videos I did in the past."
"We are finite creatures. Our lives are small and can only scientifically consider a small part of reality. What's common for us is just a sliver of what's available. We can only see so much of the electromagnetic spectrum. We can only delve so deep into extensions of space. Common sense applies to that which we can access. But common sense is just that- common. If total sense is what we want, we should be prepared to accept that we shouldn't call infinity weird or strange. The results we've arrived at by accepting it are valid, true within the system we use to understand, measure, predict and order the universe. Perhaps the system still needs perfecting, but at the end of the day, history continues to show us that the universe isn't strange. We are."
"Skeletons are scary and spooky, but you know what else is? Teenagers."