I just had a profound thought while eating my eggs. With wholemeal toast and real butter of course :-) The universe, the world, us, animals, plants and everything around us (including eggs) are marvellous things. I don't need to know how the egg got there to enjoy it any more than I need to know how the universe got there. Yes, shit happens but so does beauty. Knowing things can be good of course and scientific knowledge is far better than putting it all down to a mysterious bloke with a long beard in the sky. Science has given us great benefits but the misuse of it has also given us climate change, the depletion of earth's resources and, going back to Oppenheimer, nuclear weapons. It is almost like seeing the harm that religion has done mirrored in technology.

Don't get me wrong here. I believe that science and technology will eventually fix the things they got wrong. In the meantime I shall continue to enjoy the night sky, sunsets, flowers, people's company, animals, music and eggs :-) I enjoy learning and discovering but feel sorry for those who have to have answers before they can appreciate anything. To quote from my favourite poem

If you can dream and not make dreams your master
If you can think and not make thoughts your aim