“Most life on Earth is microbes. we've only just scratched the surface of the microbial realm. Probably less than .1% of microbes have been classified let alone cultured or had their genes sequenced, so really that microbial realm is a mystery.” Has BeensEarthMysterySurfaceRealmsGenesMicrobes Author:Paul Davies
“Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.” FacesSpaceMysteryInfiniteSurfaceDumbVisibleSpellsTime And SpaceCountenance Book:Pierre; or The Ambiguities Source: Pierre; or The Ambiguities
“Blade Runner is a rare science fiction movie so full of material that pages can be written about it without scratching the surface. A review like this can provide little more than an overview. A detailed exploration of the movie, its style, and its mysteries requires dedication that only someone immersed in Blade Runner lore can provide.” LittlesFictionWrittenMysteryStyleMaterialsPagesScience FictionSurfaceExplorationReviewsDedicationRunnersBladesBlade RunnerScience Fiction MovieOverviewScratching The Surface Author:James Berardinelli
“Life's an act of magic, too. Claire Hamill sings a line in one of her songs that really sums it up for me: 'If there's no magic, there's no meaning.' Without magic- or call it wonder, mystery, natural wisdom- nothing has any depth. It's all just surface. You know: what you see is what you get. I honestly believe there's more to everything than that, whether it's a Monet hanging in a gallery or some old vagrant sleeping in an alley.” IfsKnowsBelieveSongNaturalLinesSleepWonderMagicMysteryDepthSurfaceHonestlyGalleryAlleysClaireSleeping InVagrantsMonet Author:Charles de Lint
“Yet, much of what lies beneath the ocean's surface remains a mystery, and our nation continues to rely on a confused, antiquated system of ocean governance.” LyingNationsMysteryOceanRemainsSurfaceRelyConfusedGovernanceBeneath The SurfaceGood Governance Author:Tom Allen
“Scratch the surface of knowledge and mystery bubbles up like a spring. And occasionally, at certain disquieting moments in history (Aristarchus, Galileo, Plank, Einstein), a tempest of mystery comes rolling in from the sea and overwhelms our efforts.” MomentsCertainEffortMysterySeaSpringSurfaceBubblesRollingScratchesTempest Book:Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God Source: Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God
“It's my belief that one of the unconscious reasons which underlies the odd attitude of the establishment toward hallucinogens is the fact that they bring the mystery to the surface as an individual experience. In other words, you do not understand the psychedelic experience by getting a report from Time magazine or even the Economist. You only understand the psychedelic experience by having it.” ReasonFactsIndividualBeliefAttitudeMysterySurfaceMagazinesOddUnconsciousReportsEstablishmentEconomistPsychedelicPsychedelic ExperienceTime MagazineHallucinogens Author:Terence McKenna
“Mars, we know, was once wet and warm. Was it home to life? And what can living and learning to work on its rust-colored surface teach us about the future of our own planet, Earth? Answering those mysteries may hold the key to our future.” KnowsMayHomeEarthTeachMysteryPlanetsKeysWarmSurfaceOur FutureWetMarsPlanet EarthRustLive And Learn Author:Buzz Aldrin
“The desert is an ideal illusion of a blank slate - so much mystery in endless layers is hidden underneath its bright, pseudo-sterile surface.” MysteryIllusionIdealsSurfaceEndlessDesertLayersBlankSlatePseudoBlank Slates Author:Vera Nazarian
“Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery, like the idle curved tunnels of leaf miners on the face of a leaf. We must somehow take a wider view, look at the whole landscape, really see it, and describe what's going on here. Then we can at least wail the right question into the swaddling band of darkness, or, if it comes to that, choir the proper praise.” IfsLooksWholeFacesLife IsViewsDarknessOur LivesMysteryBandPraiseSurfaceLandscapeIdleLeafsTunnelsChoirMinersRight QuestionsTracing Author:Annie Dillard
“So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.” KnowsWayMomentsFoundLostForeverWonderfulMysteryObjectsSurfaceMysteriousFragmentsParts Of LifeMysterious Ways Book:The Bonesetter's Daughter Source: The Bonesetter's Daughter