Quotes About Mystery

He was husky, barrel-chested, and my age. The belly was a work in progress. It's the name that was important. He was part-time tough, like I said. Basically he's an accountant and works at a place downtown. He's really dead?" "Well," says Manny, "I didn't check his pulse, but he was in two pieces.

The good poem simultaneously reveals and conceals. It is in this sense that it is mysterious. The not so good poem is often mysterious only by virtue of its concealment. Or it wears exotic clothing to hide its essential plainness.

She scared me a little bit," recalled Harry King. "There was something about her that made me feel uneasy. I used to say it to Way: 'She has a demon inside of her.

there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.

Chaos who, with a massive heave, or a great shrug, or hiccup, vomit, or cough, began the long chain of creation that has ended with pelicans and penicillin and toadstools and toads, sea lions, seals, lions, human beings, and daffodils and murder and art and love and confusion and death and madness and biscuits.

The man waxed his mustache. In Sebastian's book, that was never a good sign.

So Einstein was wrong when he said, God does not play dice. Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.

God abhors a naked singularity.

If the government is covering up knowledge of aliens, they are doing a better job of it than they do at anything else.

The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

Although quantum mechanics has been around for nearly 70 years, it is still not generally understood or appreciated, even by those that use it to do calculations.

God not only plays dice, he also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

Feynman once wrote, "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throw the dice where they cannot be seen.

Some people make a great mystery of this idea, sometimes called the multiverse concept, but these are just different expressions of the Feynman sum over histories.

Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other? This is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. We shall attempt to answer it in this book. Unlike the answer given in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, ours won't be simply "42."  

On what he thinks about all day "Women. They are a complete mystery.

What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes. Black holes are stranger than anything dreamed up by science-fiction writers, but they are firmly matters of science fact.

Dios no solo juega a los dados, a veces los tira donde no se pueden ver.

After all, it is hard to think of a more important, or fundamental, mystery than what, or who, created and controls the universe.

The great mystery at the heart of the Big Bang is to explain how an entire, fantastically enormous universe of space and energy can materialise out of nothing. The secret lies in one of the strangest facts about our cosmos. The laws of physics demand the existence of something called "negative energy.

Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why this particular set of laws and not some other?

We can't predict what that will be or when we will find it because if we knew that, we would have found it already!