purpos nōn obstante absurdus

I am driven to learn. For, what higher a purpose could we assign ourselves? Us, replicating bits of organic matter that have clumped, organized, and become aware. We could not exist if, within the nuclear furnaces of supernovae, the elements that support life were not fused in nucleosynthesis… If those stars had not exploded, seeding their oxygen, carbon and iron-rich innards into the mix of swirling dust clouds.

We are the universe waking, and I at least, find myself obliged to learn more.

In Memoriam Carl Sagan

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~ by zenithnoesis on May 17, 2010.