A quote from one of my favorite s/f authors
Just the other day, I re-discovered John Varley's website and was filling my brain with his movie reviews, when I came across this:
"There is much talk of “God” and his intentions and plans and mercy or lack of it. I take God to mean that indefinable something that I feel exists somewhere, somehow, in the sense that I don’t think we will ever answer all the questions of the Universe, simply because each answer raises another question. I reject the stories of every religion I have ever encountered. They are just folk tales told by hairless apes quivering in the dark as Beasts roam outside, bent on eating us. But that doesn’t mean I don’t think something else is going on with this thing we call consciousness. I just don’t think we’ll ever figure it out."
John Varley
review of "Life of Pi"
from his website
http://varley.net/movie_review/life-of-pi/
I have found, in my own experience, that the more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know. But that's what makes exploring so entertaining. There is always something new to learn.