"I consider that we are still monkeys; we just came down from the trees rather recently, and it’s astonishing how well we can do. The fact that we can even write down partial differential equations, let alone solve them, to me is a miracle. The fact that we ourselves at the moment have very limited understanding of things doesn’t surprise me at all. I propose that our universe is the most interesting of all possible universes, and our fate as human beings is to make it so." -- Freeman Dyson.