There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people.

How great is the mystery of the first cells which were one day animated by the breath of our souls! How impossible to decipher the welding of successive influences in which we are forever incorporated! In each one of us, through matter, the whole history of the world is in part reflected.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.

I don’t think that faith, whatever you’re being faithful about, really can be scientifically explained. And I don’t want to explain this whole life business through truth, science. There’s so much mystery. There’s so much awe.

The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.

Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I’m building infrastructure the hard way. I’m using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space.

The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.

Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

I used to consider the listener. But now I’m in a space where, if I’m not inspired, I can’t really do the music. I can’t feel it.

Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust – or less than dust – in the enormity of the space in which there is nothing.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

‚Mystic River‘ just smelled interesting to me. So I read it and liked it right away. Even the dialogue in it was great.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can’t escape to infinity.

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don’t know.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

I have the space and liberty to create.

For NASA, space is still a high priority.

Even Hubble hasn’t found yet the end of this universe, and we don’t know that it has any end.

I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don’t go out with Halley’s Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: ‚Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.‘

The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend the world.

It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.

Many admire, few know.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

The only thing wrong with the NBA – or any other professional sport, for that matter – is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

What goes on inside a star is better understood than one might guess from the difficulty of having to look at a little dot of light through a telescope, because we can calculate what the atoms in the stars should do in most circumstances.

An elusive, enigmatic aura will make people want to know more, drawing them into your circle. Create such a power by hinting at something contradictory within you.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

The centre of the system of the world is immovable.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.