“Astrologers used to believe that cosmic events influence human affairs; science believed for centuries that neither influences the other. Now we see that human affairs influence cosmic events.”
I love this. I think what is more profound is the way in which science made humanity less special. How we went from the center of the universe to just another life form on one of trillions of planets. Yet, science also made us more important, because we are made of the matter of dying stars, we are the universe discovering itself.
“Astrologers used to believe that cosmic events influence human affairs; science believed for centuries that neither influences the other. Now we see that human affairs influence cosmic events.”
I love this. I think what is more profound is the way in which science made humanity less special. How we went from the center of the universe to just another life form on one of trillions of planets. Yet, science also made us more important, because we are made of the matter of dying stars, we are the universe discovering itself.
I outlined this "progression" here: https://www.lianeon.org/p/how-science-made-humanity-less-special