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“Because we remember pain and the menace of death more vividly than pleasure, and because our feelings toward the beneficent aspects of the unknown have from the first been captured and formalised by conventional religious rituals, it has fallen to the lot of the darker and more maleficent side of cosmic mystery to figure chiefly in our popular supernatural folklore.”

Source: The Complete Fiction Collection vol III

“Physics is the science of all the tremendously powerful invisibilities - of magnetism, electricity, gravity, light, sound, cosmic rays. Physics is the science of the mysteries of the universe. How could anyone think it dull?”

Thinking Light Science Universe Sound Powerful Mystery Physics Dull Rays Cosmic Gravity Electricity Invisibility Magnetism Cosmic Rays

Book:Twice Shy

Source: Twice Shy

“We're quite happy with our Big Bang description of cosmic origins. But actually, the Big Bang accounts for what happened only after the beginning. The beginning itself, and especially what happened before, remains the biggest mystery of all.”

Bigs Happened Mystery Accounts Remains Description Cosmic Bangs

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.”

Mystery Atheist Cosmic

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“I was on the verge of something numinous and profound and in one more second the universe was going to crack open and arcana would rain down on my head like grace and all the cosmic mysteries were going to be revealed.”

Universe Grace Mystery Rain Profound Cracks Cosmic Verge Numinous

Book:Emotionally Weird: A Novel

Source: Emotionally Weird: A Novel

“A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can’t be how the universe works.” “In the Order we call it ‘inverse profundity.’ We’ve observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.”

Bigs Order Universe Interesting Numbers Cases Mystery Deeper Cosmic Pennies Profundity Inverse Janitor

Book:The Magicians Trilogy

Source: The Magicians Trilogy

“In short, there are mysteries of science and of soul that will never be understood no matter how hard we measure, no matter how strongly we believe, no matter how deep our think tanks and how high our aspirations. But as anyone will tell you—for we all know this within our hearts—the impossible happens and grand cosmic mysteries are solved on a regular basis, although most of the time the solutions lead to even greater mysteries.”

Thinking Knows Believe Heart Soul Matter Hard Happens Greater Impossible Mystery Solutions Understood Bases Aspiration Cosmic Tanks

Book:Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound

Source: Neal Shusterman's Skinjacker Trilogy: Everlost; Everwild; Everfound