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

by Brian Greene

If you clothed reasonable-sounding ideas in the right language it seemed that you could pretty much make it up as you went along.

“Man is the only being that knows death; all others become old, but with a consciousness wholly limited to the moment which must seem to them eternal,” knowledge that instills the “essentially human fear in the presence of death.” Spengler concluded that “every religion, every scientific investigation, every philosophy proceeds from it.”3

Large groups often display statistical regularities absent at the level of the individual.