Stories are how we make sense of the world, even when they don’t make sense.
The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.
The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.
The beauty of physics lies in its ability to reveal the underlying simplicity of the complex universe.