Russell sometimes wrote as if the fact that we are a mere speck in a vast universe showed that we don’t really matter all that much: “On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded.”
罗素曾经写道，作为宇宙中的一个微不足道的一个点，我们其实什么都算不上：“在这个点上，这个微小的碳水化合物，一个所谓不寻常的物理化学的复杂体，它慢慢在宇宙中爬行，直到慢慢解体成当初组合成的各种元素。”