Quotes About Mystery

Kathree sat alone on the beach, hugging her knees and watching the woman do what she did and wondering what events in her life had caused her to shift into what she was now, so tall, so lovely, so watchable. She did not have the manner of one who had been born beautiful, which made Kathree suspect that she had come by it through some kind of personal disaster.

that he lived in a universe whose complexity defied algorithmic simulation.

Some things by their nature cannot be mapped.

What they conceal tells you more than what they reveal.

They are probably now either archived or expunged. If I don't escape from 1851 within the next three weeks, I will never know which.

Crash thing—is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?" Juanita shrugs. "What's the difference?

In fact, I would probably sound like a seventeenth-century alchemist or something.

ignoti et quasi occulti, which means 'unknown and partly hidden

But because people could be so beautiful it was hard not to think that there was something of people that came from the other world

He will see you immediately, mademoiselle!" announced de Mayet, though not until after they had watched a second candelabra

Classified," he said. "Never heard of him. Perhaps a Cornish name, is it? Protestant or Catholic?" "'Tisn't a name," he said. "It means I cannot tell you. I am under orders not to tell you.

that's how the government is. It was invented to do stuff that private enterprise doesn't bother with, which means that there's probably no reason for it; you never know what they're doing or why.

if money is a science, then it is a dark science, darker than Alchemy. It split away from Natural Philosophy millennia ago

In which witches will be witches

There is a saying, 'Turtles all the way down,' which I would not expect you to understand, but the point of it is that to speculate along these lines is idle

Empty boxes, old newspapers, a milk jug, and a wine bottle." "You're identifying the contents of the garbage bag?" "No dead cats. Or live ones." "Maybe it's a Schrödinger's Hefty bag." I

What awaited them there could only be guessed at, but for Ariane it was probably going to be a substantial reward, a medal, and a promotion to some high rank in Red's military intelligence branch.

Enoch what's-his-name

Trying to crack the code used on these sheets will be a perfect puzzle to fill the gaping void

2. Is it possible that there is something we do not fully understand about life, the understanding of which would change everything?

Life is so gorgeous, the mystery is we are not always deliriously happy.

I love the smell of the universe in the morning.

Each component of this trinity of human endeavor—science, religion, and art—lays powerful claim to our feelings of wonder, which derive from an embrace of the mysterious. Where mystery is absent, there can be no wonder.

Dark energy is a mysterious pressure in the vacuum of space that acts in the opposite direction of gravity, forcing the universe to expand faster than it otherwise would.