Robert Wright Quote

That biological evolution has an arrow — the invention of more structurally and informationally complex forms of life — and that this arrow points toward meaning, isn't, of course, proof of the existence of God. But it's more suggestive of divinity than an alternative world would: a world in which evolution had no direction, or a world with directional evolution but no consciousness. If more scientists appreciated the weirdness of consciousness — understood that a world with sentience, hence without meaning, is exactly the world that a modern behavioral scientist should expect to exist — then reality might inspire more awe than it does.

Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny. New York: Pantheon Books, 2000, p. 323.