There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter

Speech (1998-09), “Is There an Artificial God?”, Digital Biota 2 conference, Cambridge, UK

Collected in The Salmon of Doubt, Part 2 "The Universe" (2002) [ed. Peter Guzzardi].