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“But just as a toaster used as a doorstop is still a machine designed to toast bread, you – whatever you choose to do with your life – are still a machine designed to propagate your genes. All of us are. It’s what the priests, the sages and philosophers searched for in vain: the ultimate explanation for our existence.”

Steve Stewart-Williams, The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
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