Mystery Quotes - Page 25

• Human was the music, natural was the static.

  John Updike

  Science, Natural, Static

  John Updike (2012). “Facing Nature”, p.20, Knopf

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

  Robert Frost

  Science, Towns, Telescopes

  Robert Frost (2016). “The Letters of Robert Frost”, p.315, Harvard University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The promos with all of the beautiful women probably attracted some men, but the mystery story line is pretty cool. It's got that dark edge, and people will watch anything funny.

  James Denton

  Beautiful, Dark, Men

  "James Denton: Desperate Plumber". Interview with Dan Kapelovitz, kapelovitz.com. February 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To someone who could grasp the Universe from a unified standpoint the entire creation would appear as a unique truth and necessity.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Science, Unique, Creation

  26 Copy quote

• The Universe is populated by innumerable suns, innumerable earths, and perhaps, innumerable forms of life. That thought expresses the essence of the Copernican revolution. No revelation more striking has ever come from the scientific mind.

  Robert Jastrow

  Science, Light, Essence

  Robert Jastrow (1990). “Journey to the Stars: Space Exploration--Tomorrow and Beyond”, Bantam

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes.

  Tycho Brahe

  Stars, Eye, Science

  25 Copy quote

• Ben's Mr. Market allegory may seem out-of-date in today's investment world, in which most professionals and academicians talk of efficient markets, dynamic hedging and betas. Their interest in such matters is understandable, since techniques shrouded in mystery clearly have value to the purveyor of investment advice. After all, what witch doctor has ever achieved fame and fortune by simply advising 'Take two aspirins'?

  Warren Buffett

  Doctors, Two, Advice

  Chairman's Letter to the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. 1987.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Ironically, gratitude's most powerful mysteries are often revealed when we are struggling in the midst of personal turmoil.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Gratitude, Powerful, Struggle

  7 Copy quote

• We are never far from the lilt and swirl of living water. Whether to fish or swim or paddle, of only to stand and gaze, to glance as we cross a bridge, all of us are drawn to rivers, all of us happily submit to their spell. We need their familiar mystery. We need their fluent lives interflowing with our own.

  John Daniel

  Bridges, Rivers, Water

  John Daniel (2009). “The Far Corner: Northwestern Views on Land, Life, and Literature”, p.108, Counterpoint

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery. And though we spend most of our time on the surface in the daily details of ordinary existence, most us hunger to connect to this space within, to break through to bliss, to be swept away into something bigger than us.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Moving, Break Through, Space

  23 Copy quote

• The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main,
  Seems to cast water on the burning Bear,
  And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole.

  William Shakespeare

  Science, Wind, Water

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.292

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you want to penetrate into the heart of physics, then let yourself be initiated into the mysteries of poetry.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Heart, Want, Physics

  5 Copy quote

• In a certain sense I made a living for five or six years out of that one star [υ Sagittarii] and it is still a fascinating, not understood, star. It's the first star in which you could clearly demonstrate an enormous difference in chemical composition from the sun. It had almost no hydrogen. It was made largely of helium, and had much too much nitrogen and neon. It's still a mystery in many ways ... But it was the first star ever analysed that had a different composition, and I started that area of spectroscopy in the late thirties.

  Jesse L. Greenstein

  Stars, Science, Years

  57 Copy quote

• Was it a light only she could see? A gypsy's spell? A mystery?

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Light, Gypsy, Spells

  Song: Luna's Gone, Album: Between Here and Gone, 2004

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the normal law since mathematicians think it is a law of nature whereas physicists are convinced that it is a mathematical theorem.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Thinking, Law

  9 Copy quote

• From a large planet of overwhelming magnitude, unlimited resources and endless mystery, the Earth has suddenly become a small planet, thoroughly explored, limited in resources, and reduced in mystery.

  Thomas Berry

  Earth, Endless, Planets

  Thomas Berry, Thomas Mary Berry (2006). “Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community”, Counterpoint LLC

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

  Keith Miller

  Desert, Forests, Bones

  12 Copy quote

• I am dying into your mystery, and dying, I am now no other than that mystery. I open to your majesty as an orchard welcomes rain, and twenty times that.

  Rumi

  Rain, Dying, Twenties

  7 Copy quote

• There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign mode of being. If it grants us amazing powers over much of its functioning we must always remember that any arrogance on our part will ultimately be called to account. The beginning of wisdom in any human activity is a certain reverence before the primordial mystery of existence, for the world about us is a fearsome mode of being. We do not judge the universe.

  Thomas Berry

  Judging, Arrogance, World

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.50, Crown

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery.

  Dan Simmons

  Perfect, Creative, Mixtures

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Hyperion”, p.261, Spectra

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is a mystery, and to tell the truth, I am intrigued by mysteries even if this is to be my last week of enjoying them. I would welcome some glimmer of understanding but, failing that, working on the puzzle will suffice.

  Dan Simmons

  Understanding, Lasts, Welcome

  Dan Simmons (2014). “The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion”, p.32, Spectra

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The uncontrollable mystery on the bestial floor.

  William Butler Yeats

  Uncontrollable, Unsatisfied

  "The Magi" l. 1, 6 (1914)

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• God is the "mysterium tremendum," that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to me than my I.

  Martin Buber

  Self, Evident

  Lev Shestov, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber (1969). “Great twentieth century Jewish philosophers: Shestov, Rosenzweig, Buber, with selections from their writings”

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.

  Paul Davies

  Origin Of Life, Life Is, Outstanding

  6 Copy quote

• Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Law, Littles, Should

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2013). “The Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: Whose Body?, Clouds of Witness, and Unnatural Death”, p.317, Open Road Media

  58 Copy quote

  Show source