Quotes about Enigma

mystery isn't something that you cannot understand -- it is something that you can endlessly understand!

Sir Arthur Eddington as he contemplated the peculiarities of the quantum domain: "Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

medio maravilloso, cuyas posibilidades ocultas apenas sospechamos en la actualidad.

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

I think books should have secrets, like people do.

I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

What can't be known or named except in our feeble attempt to clothe it in language.

God is predictably unpredictable.

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed. "It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.

Charlotte read the preprinted slip. Redeemed. $1,000. She whirled around. "Wait, sir, excuse me, but how did you know . . ." But he was gone. Along with the crowd and the hum of voices. Charlotte stood completely alone except for the battered trunk and the glittering swirl in the air.