The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not. The existence or nonexistence of a creator is independent of our desires. A world without G… - Lawrence M. Krauss

We need to live our experience as it is and with our eyes open. The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.

Maybe all of the mysteries of particle theory can be solved by invoking the same mantra: if the universe were any other way, we could not live in it.

But when you look at CMB map, you also see that the structure that is observed, is in fact, in a weird way, correlated with the plane of the earth around the sun. Is this Copernicus coming back to haunt us? That's crazy. We're looking out at the whole universe. There's no way there should be a correlation of structure with our motion of the earth around the sun - the plane of the earth around the sun - the ecliptic. That would say we are truly the center of the universe. The new results are either telling us that all of science is wrong and we're the center of the universe, or maybe the data is (s)imply incorrect, or maybe it's telling us there's something weird about the microwave background results and that maybe, maybe there's something wrong with our theories on the larger scales.

The Initial Mystery that attends any journey is: how did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place? — LOUISE BOGAN, Journey Around My Room