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Quotes About Mystery

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.
~ Albert Schweitzer
People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
~ David Eagleman
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
People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.
~ Allan Hamilton
There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower.
~ Richard P. Feynman
William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn't been explained yet. Tonight he has made chemistry into magic for her.
~ Joshilyn Jackson
There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.
~ Andrew Schneider
We know less about the ocean's bottom than about the moon's back side.
~ Roger Revelle
This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.
~ John Archibald Wheeler
Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either.
~ G.K. Chesterton
A page from a journal of modern experimental physics will be as mysterious to the uninitiated as a Tibetan mandala. Both are records of enquiries into the nature of the universe.
~ Fritjof Capra
Science can't tell you why anything happens.
~ Michael Crichton
As science went further and further into the external world, they ended up inside the atom where to their surprise they saw consciousness staring them in the face!
~ Ravi Gomatam
It's curtains for you, Mighty Mouse! This gun is so futuristic that even I don't know how it works!
~ Ralph Bakshi
Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.
~ Roger Ebert
Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed
~ Terence McKenna
Plutus himself, That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine, Hath not in nature's mystery more science Than I have in this ring.
~ William Shakespeare
Science produces an incomparably lyrical state in this man.
~ Ernest Solvay
God not only plays dice, he throws them in the corner where you can't see them.
~ Stephen Hawking
O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Magic could not be measured and explained in scientific terms, for magic grew through destroying the very natural principles that made science as people knew it impossible.
~ Ilona Andrews