After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again.
Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way
of spending our brief time in the sun,
to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up
in it?
This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.
--Richard Dawkins
