In giving birth to us, the universe has performed its most astonishing creative act. Out of a hot, dense melee of subatomic particles... it has fashioned intelligence and consciousness... Somehow the anarchy of genesis has given way to exquisite, intricate order, so that now there are portions of the universe that can reflect upon themselves..
Equations of Eternity: Speculations on Consciousness, Meaning, and, the Mathematical Rules that Orchestrate the Cosmos, Introduction (p. xiii), Hyperion. 1993