A Universe Without Purpose Should Neither Depress

As A Scientist, I Don't Believe Anything. Science Shouldn't Use The Word Belief. There Are Things More Likely And Less Likely. Science Can Say Nothing With Absolute Certainty.

Organized Religion, Wielding Power Over The Community, Is Antithetical To The Process Of What Modern Democracy Should Define As Liberty. The Sooner We Are Without It, The Better.

For Many, To Live In A Universe That May Have No Purpose, And No Creator, Is Unthinkable.

I Hope That Every [person] At One Point In Their Life Has The Opportunity To Have Something That Is At The Heart Of Their Being, Something So Central To Their Being That If They Lose It They Won't Feel They're Human Anymore, To Be Proved Wrong Because That's The Liberation That Science Provides. The Realization That To Assume The Truth, To Assume The Answer Before You Ask The Questions Leads You Nowhere.

Now, Almost One Hundred Years Later, It Is Difficult To Fully Appreciate How Much Our Picture Of The Universe Has Changed In The Span Of A Single Human Lifetime. As Far As The Scientific Community In 1917 Was Concerned, The Universe Was Static And Eternal, And Consisted Of A One Single Galaxy, Our Milky Way, Surrounded By Vast, Infinite, Dark, And Empty Space. This Is, After All, What You Would Guess By Looking Up At The Night Sky With Your Eyes, Or With A Small Telescope, And At The Time There Was Little Reason To Suspect Otherwise.