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Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that…

— Cennino Cennini

Science is about exploring, and the only way to uncover the secrets of the universe is to go and look.

— Brian Cox

[Science is] an imaginative adventure of the mind seeking truth in a world of mystery.

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

“Science of the kind I criticize tends to assert that everything is explicable, that whatever has not been explained will be explained--and, furthermore, by…

— Marilynne Robinson

I think mystery... allows us time to dream.

— Robert Wilson

[Mystery] is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

— Albert Einstein

The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and his description…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

The heart of it all is mystery, and science is at best only the peripheral trappings to that mystery--a ragged barbed-wire fence through which…

— Rick Bass

I don't like science because I don't think it makes sense to put a definition on everything. It's a lot more exciting to think…

— King Tuff

A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new…

— Claude Bernard

What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.

— Brian Cox

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.

— Robert M. Sapolsky