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When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the my
by beauzero 7y ago
When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the universe.' But God answered, 'That knowledge is for me alone.' So I said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well George, that's more nearly your size.' And he told me.
-George Washington Carver
- Ozumandias 7y agoLove it. Reads like a country version of the Serenity Prayer. "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference."
- balfirevic 7y agoThe joke's on God. To truly get to the mystery of the peanut you have to go through the mystery of the universe!
- SubiculumCode 7y agoThis is pretty close to truth. And if all laws of physics at at work within the peanut, then all laws of the universe would be unlocked. Quite clever.