And there is no other [center] of heat and light in the universe . . . certainly those who have chosen to worship men as gods—as Jove, Saturn, Mars and the like—have [made a mistake], seeing that even if a man were as large as our earth, he would look no bigger than a little star which appears but as a speck in the universe; and seeing again that these men are mortal, and putrid and corrupt in their sepulchres.
–“In Praise of the Sun,”
Leonardo da Vinci
Read the passage. With which statement would da Vinci most likely agree?
Humans are not as magnificent as the sun.
Humans are the center of the universe.
Humans are the size of stars. (it's not this one )
Humans are fundamentally evil.