This, apparently, comes from Winnie the Pooh (Andrzej is a big fan and knows it all by heart). I, too, read all the books as a kid, but can’t identify the referent. (Reader help appreciated.)
Hili: What is science dealing with?
A: Science is researching everything under the sun.
Hili: And what does it say about God?
A: The more it is looking inside the more He is not there.
(Photo: Sarah)
In Polish:
Hili: Czym zajmuje się nauka?
Ja: Badaniem mikro i makrokosmosu.
Hili: A co mówi o Bogu?
Ja: Że im bardziej zagląda do środka, tym bardziej Go tam nie ma.
(Photo: Sarah)
I too am a Winnie the Pooh fan. I think the reference is:
The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn’t there.
In context:
One day when Pooh Bear had nothing else to do, he thought he would do something, so he went round to Piglet’s house to see what Piglet was doing. It was still snowing as he stumped over the white forest track, and he expected to find Piglet warming his toes in front of his fire, but to his surprise he saw that the door was open, and the more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn’t there
Yes, from The House at Pooh Corner.
Here’s a nice write-up of the author:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A._A._Milne
Winnie the Pooh was once a staple in our house. Paddington Bear too, and all The Beatrice Potter stories. I still have all those special children’s story books, as the grown children would not let me give them away. 🙂
I can’t help with the quote, but AA Milne’s birthday was yesterday, and he was featured on FfRF’s website yesterday, in the “Thought for the Day” column. L
Thanks Grania and Linda. That really puts it in context. Love Winnie the Pooh but couldn’t place it myself.
Every day I desperately await the “Hili dialogue”!
(None of our four cats speak to us — let alone engage us in intelligent dialogues on god, religion or philosophy.)
Best wishes to Hili!
Oh, they’re speaking to you, all right; you just don’t realize it.
Cheers,
b&
For some reason I envision a 4 cat choir going ‘oh, oh, oh, we’re speaking from the Ceiling’ – but miming instead of meowing.
[I’ve gotten a perverse music upbringing, that’s for sure….]
I like this one. Very nicely put!
Winnie the bear was a female black bear cub which was brought to England as a mascot with the Canadian army regiment, the Fort Garry Horse. When her regiment left for the Western Front, she was left in the London Zoo, where she became a popular attraction.
When C. R. Milne saw her, he renamed his teddy bear Winnie the Pooh. Both were then immortalised in his father’s writing.
That explains “Winnie.” What about “the Pooh?”
(I could not think of a way to ask that question that would not provoke a slew of scatological jokes.)Whenever my parents heard “Winnie the Pooh” mentioned on TV, they would say, “That’s the WORST name for a kids’ book I ever heard.”
Wikipedia claims Pooh was the name of a swan CR had seen. Bit odd, but there you go.
He was only 4 or maybe 5 at the time, so oddity should be expected.
I forgot to mention above that Winnie was named after Winnipeg, Manitoba though she was born in Ontario and acquired as a mascot in Ontario.
All of this from Wikipedia, as well.
I have a cousin who loved Scooby-Doo when she was young. Her brother started calling her “Scoob”. In my immediate family, this morphed into “Pooh”. My brother and I still call her that.