Quotes About Mystery

The word dark is a misnomer, since it implies that lack of light is the problem, that if you could just shine a flashlight on dark matter you could see it. But this stuff can't be detected by our current science. Period.

What do want with us?

Most cosmologists agree that dark matter and dark energy make up ninety-five percent of the universe. The parts we can detect, the hundreds of billions of galaxies filled with hundreds of billions of stars and planets, represent only five percent of the total.

Douglas E. Richards

Who are you?" he whispered.

The dead keep their secrets. And in a while we shall be as wise as they." —Alexander Smith "Who are you? Why do you hide in the darkness and listen to my private thoughts?" ? Juliet, from Romeo and Juliet, (modern translation)

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble." —Shakespeare (Macbeth)

Or, as the great physicist Freeman Dyson observed, 'The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

Douglas E. Richards

Douglas E. Richards

Either your couch just gave birth to a litter of throw pillows, or you have a woman living here." "You

Consciousness is a quantum effect. Even your scientists have begun to realize this.

mind is pretty miraculous. Who knows, perhaps

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." —Arthur C. Clarke

A person who believes in a particular conceptual system believes that everything can be explained by reference to that conceptual system. Whereas the artist sees the pattern and feels the mystery that looms beyond the pattern. […] Great art is pattern over mystery, it is juggling words over whirlpools of silence.

Because although Dawkins may feel that our mystery has been solved - and although science has indeed solved part of it - most of us still do not feel solved. We do not live our lives and experience our existence as solved beings. On the contrary we still experience ourselves, as our ancestors did, as tor and contradictory beings, vulnerable to aspects of ourselves and our world that we cannot understand.

A strange, pale figure emerged—Pendergast?—and she felt herself suddenly in his arms, lifted bodily as if she were a child again, her head cradled against his chest. She felt his shoulders began to convulse, faintly, regularly, almost as if he was weeping. But that was, of course, impossible, as Pendergast would never cry.

The Monster's crimes were so horrific that a mere man could not possibly have committed them. Satan, in the end, had to be invoked.

Devane saw Dundas hurrying to meet them and said dryly, 'Thanks Ralph. How can Barker have served in 1919 in a destroyer, and have lost a son in North Africa, and still look so young?' Beresford smiled. 'Will power and hair dye. Never fails.

...letting the desert scratch its own thorny poetry on the enormous moon.

We have judged God and found Him guilty of those things we do not understand.

Preciso es encontrar lo infinitamente grande en lo infinitamente pequeño, para sentir la presencia de Dios.» Pitágoras

Something like Valium," she suggested, "but not Valium." It sounded like a riddle

Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad.