Arthur Eddington Quotes

One mysterious person looking at another mysterious person equals what? Another mystery.

There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.

I'm a walking, talking enigma.

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.

I'm an enigma, an unknown.

Some things were beyond understanding.

The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

It's a phenomenon that we don't really understand.

I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you'll be too afraid to let things keep happening. Psychology destroys the mystery, this kind of magic quality. It can be reduced to certain neuroses or certain things, and since it is now named and defined, it's lost its mystery and the potential for a vast, infinite experience.

I am a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in a pita. Why the pita? That counts as another mystery.

But mark, madam, we live amongst riddles and mysteries--the most obvious things, which come in our way, have dark sides, which thequickest sight cannot penetrate into; and even the clearest and most exalted understandings amongst us find ourselves puzzled and at a loss in almost every cranny of nature's works.

People can't really place me. They're not really sure who I am.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

I cannot explain something that no one has ever figured out.

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

I'm an enigma, an unknown. You can't really figure out what I'm going to do next. I like it like that.

Mystery is not profoundness.

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

The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.

It's good to be difficult to know. Too many people are too easy to know.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.

When you can't put your finger on it, that's the most exciting stuff.

I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure.