Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe

by Brian Greene

“We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”

as Stephen Jay Gould summarized it, “A large brain allowed us to learn…the inevitability of our personal mortality”26 and “all religion began with an awareness of death.”

We revere the absolute but are bound to the transitory.