“I promise. But, seriously, if life has no meaning—” “To say it has no meaning is not to say it has no value.” “But to say it's all meaningless. Isn't that a cop-out?” “Maybe. But it seems to me that the real cop-out is to say that the universe has meaning but that we 'mere mortals' are incapable of ever knowing that meaning. Mystery is part of nature's style, that's all.

