“Meaning in life can’t be reduced to simplistic mottos. In some number of years I will be dead; some memory of my time here on Earth may linger, but I won’t be around to savor it.”

—  Sean Carroll

Chap. 1 : The Fundamental Nature of Reality
The Big Picture (2016)

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