“And Tarquin,’ Semilla said quietly. ‘He has been in league with them all along?’ ‘Yes, I am afraid so,’ Rupert confirmed.” — A.R. Merrydew Copy Share Image
The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“She’d have to treat the interview more like risotto than instant rice, adding ingredients gradually while stirring gently.” — Maya Corrigan Copy Share Image
The more the merely human part of the poet remains a mystery, the more willing is the reverence given to his divine… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Yes, the setting (Dartmoor) is a worthy one. If the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Just out of sight around a bend in the river there's always a small island full of magic and mystery just waiting… — Neil Leckman Copy Share Image
An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people-it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the… — John Keats Copy Share Image
So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed,… — John Green Copy Share Image
God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
The true mystery of the JFK assassination isn't 'How could the bullet go through two people with only slight damage?' but 'Why… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in… — Iris Apfel Copy Share Image
“You are just as connected to the Universe as a finger is to a hand, or as a branch is to a… — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
“It was Chase who had obtained the information from the girl’s boyfriend during a party in an Irish pub, simply by using… — Stefania Mattana Copy Share Image
“In March of that year, I saw a man named Paul Barkley shot to death. It happened late at night in the… — Frederick Weisel Copy Share Image
“When you forget what you ultimately stand for, you rejoice in blinding ignorance. Missing the bigger picture for the near pleasure is… — Rakesh Ranjan Copy Share Image
Dirk Gently [from Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency], needs a sidekick, as all good detectives do, and he gets this message from… — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
Darwin's theory of evolution is the last of the great nineteenth-century mystery religions. And as we speak it is now following Freudians… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where… — Democritus Copy Share Image
“The mystery of the world is revealed only to the person who can look upon the material world with his physical eyes… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
The peculiar interest of magic squares and all lusus numerorum in general lies in the fact that they possess the charm of… — Paul Carus Copy Share Image
The media are always on the lookout for possible sightings of D.B. Cooper, the man who parachuted from a plane with $200,000… — Ronald Kessler Copy Share Image
Working in the garden . . . gives me a profound feeling of inner peace. Nothing here is in a hurry. There… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains. — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
There is something to mystery. You make up this entire world that you fit into because of what the actual music does… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
Science must acknowledge truthfully how much it doesn't know and leave room for mystery, miracles, and the wisdom of nature. — Christiane Northrup Copy Share Image
“I have tread all three of his books and they held me spellbound interesting story. Its fiction based on fact...mmm I like!” — Harold Alvin Copy Share Image
Let others probe the mystery if they can.Time-harried prisoners of Shall and Will -The right thing happens to the happy man. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Susanne Alleyn's Game of Patience is a well-crafted historical mystery, authentic in every detail. Wonderfully entertaining. — Sandra Gulland Copy Share Image
The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I think it's very interesting for a director that enjoys thrillers and mysteries like I do to have the challenge to do… — Jaume Collet-Serra Copy Share Image
All began in love, all seeks to return in love. Love is the law, the teacher of wisdom, and the great revealer… — Starhawk Copy Share Image
We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I was in awe of the mystery of human compassion and the inability of love to make the distance between us any… — Keith Hollihan Copy Share Image
Men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
No one can give you any answers. There aren't any. You have to discover for yourself-you must learn to navigate the mystery. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel. — Linda Barnes Copy Share Image