Quotes About Mystery

I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

There's an element to songwriting that I can't explain, that comes from somewhere else. I can't explain that dividing line between nothing and something that happens within a song, where you have absolutely nothing, and then suddenly you have something. It's like the origin of the universe.

The sun is the primary puzzle in the universe.

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of and think about and see in the night sky through a telescope: four percent of the universe.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.

The world and the universe are far more wonderful if there's not a puppet master.

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.

We don't know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. It's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets.

Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe.

I don't think there is a hidden purpose to the universe that you have to puzzle out.

The universe is very large, and its boundaries are not known very well, but it is still possible to define some kind of a radius to be associated with it.

I'm a big believer in quantum physics, which says that the universe is more incredible and mysterious than any of us can imagine, which is my way of saying, 'Anything is possible, including angels.'

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.

Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. There's whole swathes of stuff we can't account for.

The secret life of women is to men what the universe is to NASA - unimaginably infinite and completely undiscoverable.

It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.

Another feature that everybody notices about the universe is that it's complex.