All Quotes By Tag: Anthropocentrism
“The only really useful thing about zoos is that most of them pay most of their workers most of the time.”
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“If God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.”
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“You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.”
“You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so little different, we could not manage to live in it. That is the argument from design. It sometimes takes a rather curious form; for instance, it is argued that rabbits have white tails in order to be easy to shoot. I do not know how rabbits would view that application.”
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“We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from the stupid belief in an Earth-centered or man-centered (let alone God-centered) system. He quite literally taught us our place and allowed us to go on to make extraordinary advances in knowledge.”
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