“I think we are to God, if there is such a thing, like a microscopic cell in the left toenail of Garry Kasparov in the middle of a chess match. That cell has as much awareness of what Kasparov’s doing as we do of God’s activities. We like to presume we know about the universe, but we don’t know what we’re talking about. We have finite minds, and we’re dealing with something called infinity. The most one can hope for is to live a good life and try to leave things a little better than he found them.”
Artie Shaw (quoted in Gene Lees, “Artie Shaw: The Anchorite”)
