"So many viewpoints, so little time. The one that caught my eye was: The Pointless Universe. I am out of step with most people in not finding the idea of a pointless universe depressing -- but rather the opposite. The universe is what it is, my life (and everyone's life) is of no significance except to myself and my friends. Life is not a popularity contest. I don't have to save the world or leave a legacy (unless I want to). The world's a stage and I am merely an actor with an entrance and an exit. I accept that I will leave the scene and let others take their place in the tragi-comedy, just as many millions did before I entered the world. Death is not scary. I am happy to be here and enjoy my little insignificant allotted life just as my dog does his and the plant outside the widow does its. The Pointless Universe is very liberating. It also frees me from thinking I have to kill people who disagree with me."

"What actually happens is that once scientists get hold of a good concept they gradually refine and extend it with greater and greater subtlety as their instruments of measurement improve. Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete."