Science for its part speaks against the special importance of any object of science, including human beings.... Science as opposed to religion recognizes nothing sacred either outside man or within him. But collectively, science is the assertion of man over non-man, surely an unembarrassed claim to importance and rule. Yet as individuals, scientists are anonymous factors in the scientific enterprise, each one substitutable for another. For all science cares, scientists could as well be numbered as named.

How to Understand Politics: What the Humanities Can Say to Science (2007)