There exists a world. In terms of probability this borders on the impossible. It would have been far more likely if, by chance, there was nothing at all. Then, at least, no one would have began asking why there was nothing.

going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way

We are thrown together with a sprinkling of stardust.

To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.

There is no order of things except in the human mind.

I want to understand more about the world while Im still here.

He could very likely have appealed for leniency. At least he could have saved his life by agreeing to leave Athens. But had he done this he would not have been Socrates. He valued his conscience--and the truth-- higher than life.