“The more I study the universe, the more meaningless it becomes.”
-Steven Weinberg (nobel laureate, physics)

It’s strange that the more certain we can be of something, the less meaningful it tends to be. I can be certain that if I draw a triangle on a flat sheet of paper, the sum of the interior angles will be 180 degrees. I also know that spherical cubes can’t exist. Unfortunately, these things are intrinsically meaningless. They don’t tell me why I exist, or what the purpose of life is.

The truth of things like religion that do attempt to answer meaningful questions is very uncertain. In fact it appears we have no way to test such claims empirically.

What a strange universe we live in…

http://betadecay.wordpress.com/2008/01/26/the-price-of-certainty/