"The Hebrew word for earth, adamah, was traditionally read as adam-mah meaning "Adam-What?" The earthbound universe was called mah "what?" while the character for the heavenly universe is called mi, meaning "who?" Resonating in the image of the universe is not only the sense that enquiry is fundamentally inscribed into human nature, but also that the human condition intrinsically causes man to move back and forth between these two questions."

"Places at the Zero Point" by Doris Von Drathen