Some people maintain that scientific insight has eliminated the need for meaning. I do not agree. The scientific worldview established the notion that there is a sense and purpose in the development of the universe when it recognized the evolution from the primal explosion to matter, life, and humanity. In humans, nature begins to recognize itself.

The Joy of Insight: Passions of a Physicist, Chapter Fourteen (pp. 317-318), Basic Books, Inc. 1991