„We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.“
— Richard Dawkins
Ich hatte eine Heidenangst, das Universum könnte entdecken, wie anders ich eigentlich war. Ich hatte den Verdacht, daß es irgendwann die Wahrheit über mich herausfinden und vollkommen normal darauf reagieren würde: Es würde mich kriegen. Ich hatte nicht das Gefühl, es sei bösartig, nein, bloß scharfsinnig. Und es gibt nichts Schlimmeres als ein scharfsichtiges Universum, wenn man ein bißchen sonderbar ist.“ — Philip K. Dick
„In the beginning, the universe was created, and that made a lot of people angry, and was widely regarded as a bad move. – Douglas Adams.
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