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Around Bacon's time, Shakespeare expressed an opposing sentiment in his great tragedy Macbeth with the line "it [life] is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing," which echoes more recently in Steven Weinberg's line from The First Three Minutes (1977)—"The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless".
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