Anthropocentric Quotes
13 quotes by 11 authors
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...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way…
— J M Coetzee
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Above all, we must awaken to and overcome the great hidden anthropocentric projection that has virtually defined the modern mind: the pervasive projection of soullessness…
— Richard Tarnas
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Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth.
— Ian McHarg
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Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes only instrumental, or…
— Fritjof Capra
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The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. It…
— Story Musgrave
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Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once understood: Animals can be manifestations…
— Zeena Schreck
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Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in…
— Carl Sagan
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Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of conceited apes.
— Paul Watson
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To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of the limits of human nature, the significance of biological processes underlying human behavior, and the deeper meaning…
— E. O. Wilson
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Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so…
— Frans de Waal
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I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and the laws of ecology. As…
— Paul Watson
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In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed of the whole universe, is…
— Dennis Prager
Who Wrote These Anthropocentric Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 13 Anthropocentric Quotes as follows: