Quotes About Puzzling

He looks like a man who has nits and worms at the same time.

The strength of the familiar electromagnetic force between two electrons, for example, is expressed in physics in terms of a constant known as the fine structure constant. The value of this constant, almost exactly 1/137, has puzzled many generations of physicists. A joke made about the famous English physicist Paul Dirac (1902-1984), one of the founders of quantum mechanics, says that upon arrival to heaven he was allowed to ask God one question. His question was: Why 1/137?

Two: there was no car in the driveway, so the question of how he'd come here without an umbrella yet remained perfectly dry hung in the air, vaguely alarming, like a faint odor of gas.

prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

As a rule, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

The note was undated, and without either signature or address.

As a rule," said Holmes, "the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. But I must be prompt over this matter.

Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

But how puzzling human unhappiness must be to them. We who can fill our dishes any time and with as much food as we like, who can go outside whenever we wish, and run free—we who have no masters constantly needing to be pleased or obeyed— WTF?

The most common place crime is often the most mysterious, because it presents no new or specific features from which deductions may be drawn

Thou lov'st to speak in riddles and dark words.

the human is sometimes as inscrutable, as inexplicable, as the supernatural.

I'm the hardest person to buy a gift for.

Theology is a distinctly rare, a puzzling study, given that its practitioners are happiest when the terms of their discovery fall well short of their projected point; this is where they likely glimpse their proof.

Q: Why did the little boy put lipstick on his head? A: He wanted to make up his mind.

The idea that light is emitted in discrete quanta of energy related to its frequency is puzzling,

Las intrigas que nos empujan hasta el final son las que me inquietan, me desconciertan, me pican la curiosidad y me asombran. Quedan muchas cosas en las que pensar. Queda mucha historia.

Los motivos de las mujeres son tan inescrutables...

Bah! Do you know,' the Devil confided, 'not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead than yours - have solved it? Why, there's a chap on Saturn - he looks something like a mushroom on stilts - who solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he's given up.

DANGER: HIGHLY INEFFABLE!

Girls are weird, and I don't mean that offensively. I just can't put it any other way.