Mystery Quotes - Page 33

• The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.

  Immanuel Kant

  Flower, Science, Doe

  Immanuel Kant (1900). “Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham”

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• Eyesight should learn from reason.

  Johannes Kepler

  Science, Reason, Should

  Johannes Kepler (1995). “Epitome of Copernican Astronomy: & Harmonies of the World”, Prometheus Books

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• The present situation in physics is as if we know chess, but we don't know one or two rules.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Two, Chess

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• He knows well the evening star, and once when he awoke, in a most distressful mood (some inward pain had made up that strange thing, an infant's dream), I hurried with him to our orchard plot, and he beheld the moon, and hushed at once. Suspends his sobs and laughs most silently. While his fair eyes, that swam with undropped tears, did glitter in the yellow moonbeam.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dream, Stars, Pain

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.175

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• Many a night I saw the Pleiads,
  Rising thro' the mellow shade,
  Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies,
  Tangled in a silver braid.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Stars, Science, Night

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.112, Cambridge University Press

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• By getting to smaller and smaller units, we do not come to fundamental or indivisible units. But we do come to a point where further division has no meaning.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Division, Fundamentals

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• That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns. Now I think we are small enough.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Science, Thinking, Way

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• The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

  Anaxagoras

  Stars, Science, Hot

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• There is a stability in the Universe because of the orderly and balanced process of change, the same measure coming out as going in, as if reality were a huge fire that inhaled and exhaled equal amounts.

  Heraclitus

  Science, Reality, Fire

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• Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where their shapes were such as to permit them to interlock, they began to form clusters. Water, air, fire, and earth, these are simply different clusters of the changeless atoms.

  Democritus

  Moving, Science, Fire

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• There are many worlds and many systems of Universes existing all at the same time, all of them perishable.

  Anaximander

  Science, World, Universe

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• Here lies the tremendous mystery - that God should be all-powerful, yet refuse to coerce. He summons us to cooperation. We are honored in being given the opportunity to participate in his good deeds. Remember how He asked for help in performing his miracles: Fill the water pots, stretch out your hand, distribute the loaves.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Powerful, Lying, Opportunity

  Elisabeth Elliot (1987). “A Lamp for My Feet: The Bible's Light for Daily Living”, Vine Books

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• Jesus speaks in the silence of the mystery of the Eucharist and reminds us each time that following him means going out of ourselves and making our lives not something we 'possess,' but a gift to him and to others.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Mean, Silence

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• 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

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• A creative photographer is one who either captures mystery or reveals things, everything else is useless

  Raghu Rai

  Creative, Useless, Photographer

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• It is remarkable that the elements diffused through the host of stars are some of those most closely connected with the living organisms of our globe.

  William Huggins

  Stars, Science, Elements

  William Huggins, Margaret Lindsay Huggins (1909). “The scientific papers of Sir William Huggins”, Рипол Классик

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• Astronomy would not provide me with bread if men did not entertain hopes of reading the future in the heavens.

  Johannes Kepler

  Reading, Science, Men

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• The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.

  Anaxagoras

  Science, Stones, Littles

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• Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Science, Hands

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• To me the most interesting thing about man is that he is an animal who practices art and science and in every known society practices both together.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Art, Science, Animal

  Jacob Bronowski (2008). “The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination”, p.15, Yale University Press

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• Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back.

  Alison Jolly

  Winter, Science, Sun

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• Nothing can be sworn impossible since Zeus made night during mid-day, hiding the light of the shining Sun.

  Archilochus

  Science, Night, Light

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• The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.

  Horace

  Stars, Science, Sun

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• We think, sometimes, there’s not a dragon left. Not one brave knight, not a single princess gliding through secret forests... What a pleasure to be wrong. Princesses, knights, enchantments and dragons, mystery and adventure... not only are they here-and-now, they’re all that ever lived on earth!

  Richard Bach

  Princess, Adventure, Thinking

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• All art preserves mysteries which aesthetic philosophers tackle in vain.

  Anthony Burgess

  Art, Philosopher, Vain

  "A Mouthful of Air: Language and Languages, Especially English". Book by Anthony Burgess, October 1992.

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