Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Quotes

All that we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

The world is much more mysterious than we ever thought.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

I want to know what dark matter and dark energy are comprised of. They remain a mystery, a complete mystery. No one is any closer to solving the problem than when these two things were discovered.

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage-and give exceedingly thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still-the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see.

...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

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

The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires a slightly more mature reader to accept.

There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.

When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.

There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.

There is a lot you don't know about me - a lot. I have definitely lived, that's for sure. I will just leave it at that.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.

I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.

A number of things in 'Dhalgren' are just meant to function as mysteries. They're mysteries when the book begins, and they're mysteries when the book ends.

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

It would be so weird if we knew just as much as we needed to know to answer all the questions of the universe. Wouldn't that be freaky? Whereas the probability is high that there is a vast reality that we have no way to perceive, that's actually bearing down on us now and influencing everything.

Thank God we don't know a lot about Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautreamont. These are the best guys we got, and their art is powerful because they're mysterious.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.