Anthropocentric Quotes

13 quotes by 11 authors

...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
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
Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. — Ian McHarg
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
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
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
Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs â€” in… — Carl Sagan
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
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
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
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
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: