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.

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I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

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In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world.

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I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.

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The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.

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We should not be ashamed of not having answers to all questions yet... I'm perfectly happy staring somebody in the face saying, 'I don't know yet, and we've got top people working on it.' The moment you feel compelled to provide an answer, then you're doing the same thing that the religious community does: providing answers to every possible question.

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I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.

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Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.

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We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us.

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The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.

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