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"Each of the major sciences has contributed an essential ingredient in our long retreat from an initial belief in our own cosmic importance. Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among millions; biology took away our status as paragons created in the image of God; geology gave us the immensity of time and taught us how little of it our own species has occupied (p. 147)." -Gould, Stephen Jay. (1977). Uniformity and Catastrophe. Ever since Darwin: Reflections in natural history.
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