Anthropocentrism Quotes

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You all know the argument from design: everything in the wor

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.

Bertrand Russell

God Design Rabbits Anthropocentrism

We owe a huge debt to Galileo for emancipating us all from t

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.

Christopher Hitchens

God Nature Religion Science Atheism Reason Enlightenment Galileo Souls Anthropocentrism Geocentricism Heliocentricism