“At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have made more progress. At ninety I'll have penetrated the mystery of things. At a hundred I shall have reached something marvellous, but when I am a hundred and ten everything I do, the smallest dot, will be alive.” LittlesMadeRealThreeAnimalAliveProgressMysteryTenBirdHundredStructurePlantFishesSmallestSeventiesInsectsNinetyEightyDotsMarvellous Author:Hokusai
“We live in time, it bounds us and defines us, and time is supposed to measure history, isn't it? But if we can't understand time, can't grasp its mysteries of pace and progress, what chance do we have with history--even our own small, personal, largely undocumented piece of it?” IfsChancePiecesProgressMysteryBoundsPace Book:The Sense of an Ending Source: The Sense of an Ending
“Certainly science has moved forward. But when science progresses, it often opens vaster mysteries to our gaze. Moreover, science frequently discovers that it must abandon or modify what it once believed. Sometimes it ends by accepting what it has previously scorned.” EndsSometimesScienceReligionAcceptingProgressMysteryMovedAbandonScorned Author:Loren Eiseley
“The main event is freedom. I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I hope I get to experience. It might be a good idea to retire, since as this delusion of an economy progresses, it seems that if you make ten grand a year or a hundred grand a year, there's absolutely no difference.” WritingWonderEconomyProgressMysteryDelusionRetiring Author:Nick Tosches
“Writing by hand is a way of letting mystery into my writing. But I'm constantly trying to figure out how to do this job. It's a work in progress.” WritingTryingProgressMysteryWork In Progress Author:Lauren Groff
“As long as science fails to discover the sources of life, as long as, on sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that is resistant to mathematical reckoning, as long as mankind in its steady progress is ignorant of where it's heading, as long as a mystery exists for man, there will be poetry!” MenLongProgressFailingMysterySeaSkyMankindSourceIgnorantMathematicalSteadyAbyssHeadingsReckoningSource Of LifeSteady Progress Book:Rhymes and Legends (Selection)/Rimas Y Leyendas (selección): A Dual-Language Book Source: Rhymes and Legends (Selection)/Rimas Y Leyendas (selección): A Dual-Language Book