Quotes About Mystery

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

He was moving through a new order of creation, of which few men had ever dreamed. Beyond the realms of sea and land and air and space lay the realms of fire, which he alone had been privileged to glimpse. It was too much to expect that he would also understand.

A man who grows that much hair,' critics were fond of saying, 'must have a lot to hide.

Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity.

Toda tecnología lo suficientemente avanzada es indistinguible de la magia.

He left the unspoken question hanging in the air. How did one annoy a two- kilometre-long black rectangular slab? And just what form would its disapproval take

They had not yet attained the stupefying boredom of absolute omnipotence;

And if there was anything beyond that, its name could only be God.

Odafenn szépen, sorban kialudtak a csillagok.

There could be no ghosts upon a world that had never known life.

You hide a Sun-powered device in darkness—only if you want to know when it is brought out into the light. In other words, the monolith may be some kind of alarm. And we have triggered it.

Call it the Star Gate.

Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility.

As to the nature of that drive, one thing was now certain, even though all else was mystery. There were no jets of gas, no beams of ions or plasma thrusting Rama into its new orbit. No one put it better than Sergeant Professor Myron, when he said, in shocked

The origin of the universe might be forever unknown, but all that had happened after obeyed the laws of physics

It goes on forever and forever, and perhaps Something made it. But how you can believe that Something has a special interest in us and our miserable little world—that just beats me.

it was an accident—that had killed Frank Poole.

he filled to perfection the classic recipe for a small boy: "a noise surrounded by dirt.

And then there came a sound which Moon-Watcher could not possibly have identified, for it had never been heard before in the history of the world. It was the clank of metal upon stone.

The thing's hollow—it goes on forever—and—oh my God!—it's full of stars!

Lucretius hit it on the nail when he said that religion was the by-product of fear—a reaction to a mysterious and often hostile universe.

It's not any kind of rock—it crumbles when I touch it—I feel as if I'm exploring a giant Gruyère cheese…

You are rather too fond of talking in riddles,' complained Jeserac.

Magic is just science we haven't figured out yet