“How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size?”

The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969), The Lords: Notes on Vision

"Mitteilungen" (1887-8)

Kunnumpuram, Kurien, 2011 “Theological Exploration,” Jnanadeepa: Pune Journal of Religious Studies 14/2 (July-Dec 2011)
On God

Source: Flashforward (1999), Chapter 16 (p. 167)

Mathematical Problems (1900)

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity

The Usurpation Of Language (1910)
Context: How can the Universe tell its own story save by making use of human speech; how convey its meanings to finite minds save by employing a thinker to declare them? So long as the story remains unspoken, unwritten, can we say it exists at all? Does not the significance of things become a story by the very process which ends in the movement of an intelligently guided pen over a sheet of paper, in the reading of printed types, in the utterance of recognised vocables; and until this process has been accomplished is not the “meaning” a mere promise or unrealized potency? Can we learn the history of the world, and of human life, otherwise than by reading, or hearing it spoken? How, then, can we receive it without the intermediation of a writer, a speaker?

Kosmos (1932), Above is Beginning Quote of the Last Chapter: Relativity and Modern Theories of the Universe -->

Real Time with Bill Maher, September 9, 2005
Interviews, Television Appearances