You should never be surprised by or feel the need to explain why any physical system is in a high entropy state.

No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.

Science is very good at answering the 'how' questions. 'How did the universe evolve to the form that we see?' But it is woefully inadequate in addressing the 'why' questions. 'Why is there a universe at all?' These are the meaning questions, which many people think religion is particularly good at dealing with.

According to inflation, the more than 100 billion galaxies, sparkling throughout space like heavenly diamonds, are nothing but quantum mechanics writ large across the sky. To me, this realization is one of the greatest wonders of the modern scientific age.

Experimental evidence is the final arbiter of right and wrong.

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

The real question is whether all your pondering and analyses will convince you that life is worth living. That's what it all comes down to.