#myst

As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either. ↗

— Robert Barany

#contemporaries #either #find #great #mystery

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth: she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#drama #empty #fiction #filled #jodi-picoult

People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of love. Anyone tries to possess a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower on a field, you will keep it forever, because the flower is part of the evening and the sunset and the smell of damp earth and the clouds on the horizon. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#invisible #love #moon #mystery #passion

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#education #how #i #important #know

I'm not a risk taker. I don't do plunging necklines or really short skirts. I try to stay as classy as possible and provide a little mystery. ↗

— Kristen Bell

#i #little #mystery #plunging #possible

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#awe #einstein #emotion #eyes #life

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#certain #gather #grow #i #make

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#religion #science

Abscond - to move in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#commonly #move #mysterious #property #way

In the nineteenth century, The Romantics viewed Nature as benign, a glowing reflection of God's grace. Now we know better. Nature is brutal and, if it is feminine, she's not the kind of woman you can trust. Human beings may be her finest achievement yet, but when you get right down to brass tacks, we're meat. AIDS and organisms like streptococcus don't give a crap that we subdued the earth or produced a Shakespeare... ↗

— Richard Yancey

#dogs #humor #mystery #philosophy #nature