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“Science is not just the search for the truth,” he said. “It’s the search for purpose.” And I had no response. I had always assumed those were one and the same, but what if they aren’t? I don’t know what to think now. It frightens me to imagine that you have never been listening at all.” — Ted Chiang

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Science is not just the search for the truth,” he said. “It’s the search for purpose.” And I had no response. I had always assumed those were one and the same, but what if they aren’t? I don’t know what to think now. It frightens me to imagine that you have never been listening at all.
— Ted Chiang