Until the End of Time: Physicist Brian Greene on the Poetry of Existence

We emerge from laws that, as far as we can tell, are timeless, and yet we exist for the briefest moment of time. We are guided by laws that operate without concern for destination, and yet we constantly ask ourselves where we are headed. We are shaped by laws that seem not to require an underlying rationale, and yet we persistently seek meaning and purpose.

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Art by Margaret C. Cook from a rare 1913 edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.