# Human-Centered Measures Make Other Species Look Inferior by Christine Webb > “When you measure the world with a ruler made for humans, other species will inevitably look inferior.” > **— Christine Webb**, *Harvard Gazette report of Christine Webb's Harvard Science Book Talk, October 8, 2025* ## Sources and Context - **Direct publication and locator:** [Harvard Gazette report of Christine Webb's Harvard Science Book Talk, October 8, 2025](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/10/human-exceptionalism-is-at-the-root-of-the-ecological-crisis/) — paragraph beginning 'Science too has absorbed this bias'. - **Exact original excerpt:** “When you measure the world with a ruler made for humans, other species will inevitably look inferior.” - **Context and editing:** The Gazette prints an unpunctuated pull quote earlier, then reproduces Webb's spoken sentence with the comma after 'humans' in the later paragraph. The poster follows that later direct-speech rendering; it does not quote the reporter's description of her book or lecture. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Greatest Transformation in Human History|The Greatest Transformation in Human History]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Human Animality|Human Animality]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Human Animality|Human Animality]] - [[wiki/Nonhuman Intelligence|Nonhuman Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Ecology|Ecology]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “When you measure the world with a ruler made for humans, other species will inevitably look inferior.” — Christine Webb, Harvard Gazette report of Christine Webb's Harvard Science Book Talk, October 8, 2025 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-christine-webb-human-centered-measures-make-other ```