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Quotes About Enigma

Just what I needed—a necromancer with an attitude. Oh, wait, I was a necromancer with an attitude.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Bernardo looked at me, shaking his head. I've never heard Edward talk about any woman the way he talks about you. I raised eyebrows at him. Meaning? Dangerous. He talks about you like you're dangerous.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
Edward's house. I'd never really hoped to see where he lived. He was like Batman. He rode into town, saved your ass, then vanished, and you never really expected an invitation to see the Bat Cave. Now here I was standing in front of it. Cool. It
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
XVXVI, or 10-5-10-5-1, yielded H-E-H-E-A, which, unless she wanted to show her derisive laughter, made no sense.
~ Laurie R. King
Laurie R. King
~ AND DEAD SEA
Who threw the overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder?
~ Lawrence Block
seem to be the only person to have used the name Ben Christopher on a book. Strange, innit? Strange Embrace
~ Lawrence Block
He always puzzled me —except when I had him in my arms.
~ Lawrence Durrell
I'm sad that there no more mysterious places in the world.
~ T.C. Boyle
She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.
~ Victor Hugo
What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.
~ Pierre-Simon Laplace
Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.
~ Max Planck
Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star Biggest puzzle from afar How unlike the other ones Brighter than a billion suns Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star How I wonder what you are.
~ George Gamow
Mysterious affair, electricity.
~ Samuel Beckett
Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.
~ Leigh Brackett
It doesn't matter how smart you are, Enigma is always smarter.
~ Joan Clarke
Science, you don't know, looks like magic.
~ Christopher Moore
Science is the topography of ignorance.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
~ Peter De Vries
What cannot be known is more revealing than what can.
~ John D. Barrow
The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Here is something Category-Theorists like: it is trivial, but not trivially trivial.
~ Timothy Gowers
Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."
~ Ray Bradbury
The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open.
~ Charles Fort