Delusions of Geocentricity

Humans all suffer from delusions of geocentricity to some degree. It's natural and intuitive to think that Earth is at the centre of the universe. However, science and logic tell us otherwise. There are an estimated 200-400 billion stars in our home galaxy and it is now thought that most of these have a planetary system of some sort. Multiply this by an estimated 100-200 billion galaxies in the observable universe. "The scale of things is too vast to have a human significance, whence a secret desire to reduce it, to escape the dread infinity...". - V.A. Firsoff, Life Among the Stars, Wingate UK 1974.