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“Science must acknowledge truthfully how much it doesn't know and leave room for mystery, miracles, and the wisdom of nature.”

Knows Wisdom Rooms Mystery Miracle Acknowledge

Author:Christiane Northrup

“If we stay aware and acknowledge the great mystery that is this life, we will see that we have been perfectly placed, in exactly the right position… to make all the difference in the world.”

Ifs World Has Beens Differences Mystery Position This Life Acknowledge

Book:Celestine Insights - Limited Edition of Celestine Prophecy and Tenth Insight

Source: Celestine Insights - Limited Edition of Celestine Prophecy and Tenth Insight

“We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe. We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.”

World Able Ability Doubt Mystery Conditions Creation Humility Species Acknowledge Arrogance Awe Abandon Reverence Majesty

Book:The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

Source: The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

“Ultimately, we live in the face of an irresolvable mystery about our origin and, for that matter, about our end. And what Schleiermacher would have us do is (a) acknowledge that this is the case and (b) accept it as something positive, a point of departure for a life of trusting joy.”

Ends Matter Faces Joy Accepting Cases Mystery Acknowledge Departure

Author:George Pattison

“Mystery, investigation, false leads, solution - we associate that structure with genre fiction, but it exists in our real lives, too. There's no reason why literary fiction shouldn't be able to acknowledge that and make it fresh.”

Real Reason Mystery Solutions Real Life Acknowledge

Author:Ned Beauman

“In the past we have tried to make a distinction between animals which we acknowledge have some value and other which, having none, can be liquidated when we wish. This standard must be abandoned. Everything that lives has value simply as a living thing, as one of the manifestations of the mystery that is life.”

Past Values Wish Animal Mystery Standards Acknowledge Manifestation Distinction Abandoned Living Things

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“to design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge the mystery and stupefying complexity of everyday gestures like switching off a light of turning on a tap”

Knows Believe Mean Light Behinds Mystery Design Everyday Acknowledge Complexity Mechanism Gestures Reflexes Unlearn Switching Switching Off

Book:The Architecture of Happiness

Source: The Architecture of Happiness

“There’s faith that knows itself as faith, Proyas, and there’s faith that confuses itself for knowledge. The first embraces uncertainty, acknowledges the mysteriousness of the God. It begets compassion and tolerance. Who can entirely condemn when they’re not entirely certain they’re in the right? But the second, Proyas, the second embraces certainty and only pays lip service to the God’s mystery. It begets intolerance, hatred, violence.”

Knows Firsts Certain Pay Compassion Violence Mystery Hatred Embrace Lips Tolerance Certainty Uncertainty Acknowledge Intolerance Begets Lip Service

Book:The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)

Source: The Darkness that Comes Before: The Prince of Nothing, Book One (The Prince of Nothing)