28 Quotes About Anthropocentrism

The only really useful thing about zoos is that most of them pay most of their workers most of the time.

The will to live is as intense in a weed as it is in a human.

We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.

Humans are trash.

Orcas may not be very intelligent humans, but humans are really stupid orcas

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.

In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small). By reading any text of popular science we quickly regain the sense of the absurd, but this time it is a sentiment that can be held in our hands, born of tangible, demonstrable, almost consoling things. We no longer believe because it is absurd: it is absurd because we must believe.

You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.

It is the human race, not the world, that desperately needs to be changed.