Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

If you reject the infinite, you are stuck with the finite, and the finite is parochial... the best explanation of anything eventually involves universality, and therefore infinity. The reach of explanations cannot be limited by fiat.

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense...

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and hence understanding physical reality as a whole.