Meaning Of Life Quotes (2 quotes)
One cannot ignore half of life for the purposes of science, and then claim that the results of science give a full and adequate picture of the meaning of life. All discussions of “life” which begin with a description of man's place on a speck of matter in space, in an endless evolutionary scale, are bound to be half-measures, because they leave out most of the experiences which are important to use as human beings.
In Religion and the Rebel (1957), 309.
Present experience is a dream; the future a distraction; only memory can unlock the meaning of life.
In 'Thomas Hardy', Saturday Review of Literature (1 Dec 1928), 5, 422. Rearranged by Anne Ellis for epigraph to Chap. 1 as “The present is a distraction; the future a dream; only memory can unlock the meaning of life” in Plain Anne Ellis: More About the Life of an Ordinary Woman (1931), 1, cited as “Desmond MacCarthy. (Rearranged by A.E.)”. The Anne Ellis variant is used as an epigraph attributed to Desmond MacCarthy, in Hans Cloos, 'Ship’s Wake', Conversation With the Earth. The variant also appears quoted in a conversation between characters in Chap. 31, Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune: Dune Chronicles #4 (1981).
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
