“ We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Contrary to popular belief, some animals would not have each chosen to be a human being, if they were given the choice between being what they are and being human. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ 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… Christopher Hitchens
“ It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, absolutely free but blind, at the very root of the stupendous edifice… Jacques Monod
“ In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the eerie illumination of science penetrates evermore deeply into the order of nature, the cosmos appea… Michael Denton
“ Human nature has nevertheless been changed by the ever new appearance of these teachers of the purpose of existence: It now has one additional need—the need for the ever new appearance of such teacher… Friedrich Nietzsche
“ 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 r… Julio Cortazar
“ 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… Bertrand Russell
