Weinberg, who won the Nobel Prize for foundational work on the standard model of particle physics, famously said, “The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless.”35 Dyson, on the other hand, is much more optimistic, as we saw in chapter 6: although he agrees that our Universe was pointless, he believes that life is now filling it with ever more meaning, with the best yet to come if life succeeds in spreading throughout the cosmos.
