Paint Quotes (2)
If the Eiffel Tower were now representing the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that that skin was what the tower was built for.
[Declaiming Alfred Russel Wallace's 'anthropocentric' theory, that the universe was created specifically for the evolution of mankind.]
[Declaiming Alfred Russel Wallace's 'anthropocentric' theory, that the universe was created specifically for the evolution of mankind.]
"What Is Man? (1903). Reprinted inMark Twain and Bernard Augustine De Voto, Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings (2004), 226.
See also: | Age Of The Earth (8) | Eiffel Tower (9) | Evolution (229) | Mankind (34) | Universe (138) | Alfred Russel Wallace (7)
Tell a man that there are 300 billion stars in the universe, and he'll believe you ... Tell him that a bench has wet paint upon it and he'll have to touch it to be sure.
Occasionally seen attributed to Albert Einstein, but without citation, so it is most likely anonymous.
