meaning Quotes

Material things are delightful, but they're not important.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place.

You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.

The universe doesn't owe us condolence or consolation; it doesn't owe us a nice warm feeling inside.

I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of 'work', because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.