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Sunday April 1, 2012

Purpose and meaning are things we create, not things we discover in the fundamental architecture of the world. The world keeps happening, in accordance with its rules; it's up to us to make sense of it and give it value.
- Sean Carroll
  American theoretical physicist (b. 1966)

Source:"The Pointless Universe," essay in This Will Make You Smarter, edited by John Brockman(buy on Amazon)






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