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Quotes About Mystery

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.
~ J. Robert Oppenheimer
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.
~ William Blake
Everywhere we look, complex magic of nature blazes before our eyes.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.
~ Lord Dunsany
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the first place, [his eyes] never laughed when he laughed. Have you ever noticed this peculiarity some people have? It is either the sign of an evil nature or of a profound and lasting sorrow.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.
~ Percival Lowell
Is nature a giant cat? If so, who strokes its back?
~ Nikola Tesla
Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?
~ Franz Marc
Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster.
~ Albert Einstein
We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.
~ Marilynne Robinson
No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand--for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn't expect a song.
~ Ivan Turgenev
The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.
~ Izaak Walton
To know the mechanics of the wave, is to know the entire secret of Nature.
~ Walter Russell
Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true nature of reality beckons from just beyond the horizon.
~ Brian Greene
Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!
~ Pablo Picasso
There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide.
~ Rachel Carson
The wonders of nature are endless.
~ Walt Disney
The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God .
~ Albert Pike
Hidden nature is secret God.
~ Sri Aurobindo
We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
~ Albert Einstein
The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that we're looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird.
~ William Shatner
When logics die, The secret of the soil grows through the eye, And blood jumps in the sun; Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.
~ Dylan Thomas
Art sometimes is as simple as nothing, and other times as mysterious as nature or a woman.
~ Jeet Aulakh