The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World

by David Deutsch

If you find a nugget of gold anywhere in the universe, you can be sure that in its history there was either a supernova or an intelligent being with an explanation. And if you find an explanation anywhere in the universe, you know that there must have been an intelligent being.

no utopia is possible, but only because our values and our objectives can continue to improve indefinitely.