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- At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the… — Abraham Flexner
- Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
- It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as… — Rudolf Bultmann
- On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition… — Victor Francis Hess
- True affection is a body of enigmas, mysteries and riddles, wherein two so become one that they both become two. — Thomas Browne
- The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you… — Daniel Handler
- The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset. — Roberto Unger
- There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head — Damon Knight
- Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words and speak… — Diodorus Siculus
- It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking… — Thomas Kuhn
- Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of… — Truman Capote
- It's about time you admitted that you are a miraculous work of art. You came into this world as a radiant bundle… — Rob Brezsny