"To assert that the universe has a purpose implies the universe has intent. And intent implies a desired outcome. But who would do the desiring? And what would a desired outcome be? That carbon-based life is inevitable? Or that sentient primates are life's neurological pinnacle? Are answers to these questions even possible without expressing a profound bias of human sentiment? Of course humans were not around to ask these questions for 99.9999% of cosmic history. So if the purpose of the universe was to create humans then the cosmos was embarrassingly inefficient about it."

-- Neil deGrasse Tyson

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“Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free, O how that glittering taketh me!”
“As one grows older, the sense of separateness is slowly reduced. Old people do not live on an ego level. Their concerns are not about their individuality but about the river of life, the family, the community, the nation, people, animals, nature, life. They can die easily if they are assured that life will continue positively, for they feel part of the river again, and soon they will be part of the ocean. When they are very old, they no longer belong to our time and space, but to all time and all space.”
“The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.”

Source : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”
“Our second mother, habit, is also a good mother.”
“My life is pretty hectic, but I'm really into it.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Marriages are not normally made to avoid having children.”
“There are no rules. Let the picture lead you where it must go.”

Source : "ART/ARCHITECTURE; Helen Frankenthaler, Back to the Future" by Ted Loos, www.nytimes.com. April 27, 2003.
“I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description of physical phenomena is uncanny.”

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