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

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

Nature is wont to hide herself.

Time can behave like another direction in space under extreme conditions.

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.

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

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.

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.

The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.

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.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

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

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

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

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

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

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.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

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.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

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

I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It’s a conscious thing; it’s a common-sense thing.

I have the space and liberty to create.

I create stars.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

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

There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

Crazy players love me. I don’t know why.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

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.‘

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite.

I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.

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.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

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.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

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

In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

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

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

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.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

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.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.