Trudy:

They said, "Trudy, we see now, intelligence is just the tip
of the iceberg. The more you know,
the less knowing the meaning of things means.
So forget the meaning of life."
I didn't tell them, of course,
I had.
See, it's not so much what we know,
but how we know, and what
it is about us that needs to know.

The intriguing part: Of all the things we've learned, we still
haven't learned
where did this desire to want to know come from?
Oh, don't look at me. This is the way they talk.

We know a lot about the beginnings of life. Bio-genesis.
But so what? What's more impressive is that from bio-genesis
evolved life forms intelligent enough to think up a word like
"bio-genesis."

So no matter how much we know, there's more to know than
we could ever know.

Sir Isaac Newton...secretly admitted to some friends: He
understood how gravity behaved, but not how it worked!

The operative word here is what?
Apple!
Who said "Soup"?

We're thinking maybe the secrets about life we don't understand
are the "cosmic carrots" in front of our noses that keep us going.
So maybe we should stop trying to figure out the meaning of
life and sit back and enjoy
the mystery of life.
The operative word
here is what?
Mystery!
Not meaning.

iceberg
Soup
carrots

iceberg, Soup, carrots
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Text from "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe," by Jane Wagner. Links and page design by Jennifer Murphy, Chay Casso and Ken Clary, 1998.