Meaning.....................................

First, there was the earth without anything alive on it.  For billions of years this ball was spinning with its sunsets and its waves and the sea and the noises, and there was no thing alive to appreciate it.  Can you conceive, can you appreciate of fit into your ideas what can be the meaning of a world without a living thing on it?  We are so used to looking at the world from the point of view of living things that we cannot understand what it means not to be alive, and yet most of the time the world had nothing alive on it.  And in most places in the universe today there probably is nothing alive.
-Richard P.  Feynman,  The Meaning Of It All:  Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist

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