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“When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery like soil fertility gives way to the hubris that we can treat nature as a machine. Once that leap has been made, one input follows another, so that when the synthetic nitrogen fed to plants makes them more attractive to insects and vulnerable to disease, as we have discovered, the farmer turns to chemical pesticides to fix his broken machine.”

“The writer is often faced with two choices--turn away from the reality of life's intimidating complexity or conquer its mystery by battling with it. The writer who chooses the former soon runs out of energy and produces elegantly tired fiction.”

Writing Two Reality Running Turns Choices Energy Fiction Mystery Produce Tired Former Conquer Reality Of Life Complexity Intimidating Two Choices

Book:There Was a Country: A Memoir

Source: There Was a Country: A Memoir

“Tormented by conflicting feelings, I appealed to reason ; and it is reason which, amid so many dogmatic contradictions, now forces the hypothesis upon me. A priori dogmatism, applying itself to God, has proved fruitless: who knows whither the hypothesis, in its turn, will lead us? I will explain therefore how, studying in the silence of my heart, and far from every human consideration, the mystery of social revolutions, God, the great unknown, has become for me an hypothesis, I mean a necessary dialectical tool.”

Source: System of Economical Contradictions: Or, The Philosophy of Misery

“Is there any mystery like who you finally turn out to be.”

Turns Mystery Maturity

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“When I think of mystery, I don't think about myself. I think of the universe, like why does the moon rise when the sun falls? Caterpillars turn into butterflies? I really haven't remained a recluse.”

Thinking Doe Turns Fall Universe Sun Mystery Havens Moon Butterfly Caterpillars Recluse Moon Rise

Author:Bob Dylan

“I love the world the Lord has created; I love the mountains, the rivers, the valleys, the skies. I love the forests, the fields, the flowers. I love the mysteries of evolution and dna and the big bang. I want to know the majesties of the Lord's Creation. I cannot close my eyes to all this. I cannot turn away from science and scientific exploration.”

Knows World Want Bigs Eye Turns Lord Mystery Sky Creation Fields Flower Evolution Mountain Rivers Forests Exploration Valleys Dna Bangs Majesty

Author:Anne Rice

“Forgetting: that, too, was the heart's slow way of healing, but it could only be done alone. Love and loss turns us into the most solitary of creatures, their mysteries can never entirely be shared.”

Way Heart Done Turns Loss Forget Healing Mystery Creatures Solitary One Love Love And Loss

Book:My sad republic

Source: My sad republic

“To do any important work in physics a very good mathematical ability and aptitude are required. Some work in applications can be done without this, but it will not be very inspired. If you must satisfy your "personal curiosity concerning the mysteries of nature" what will happen if these mysteries turn out to be laws expressed in mathematical terms (as they do turn out to be)? You cannot understand the physical world in any deep or satisfying way without using mathematical reasoning with facility.”

Source: Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman

“The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion in the members of his mystical body, the church in every age.”

Body Age Turns Passion Christ Church Lord Sacrifice Mystery Blood Members Embrace Continuing Mystical Our Lord Eucharistic

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

“Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended.”

Turns Passion Mystery Uncertainty Thrill

Author:Jerry Saltz

“There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt's America: Selections from the Writings of the Oyster Bay Naturalist

“Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. What is it like, such intensity of pain? If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine. In this uncontainable night, be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses, the meaning discovered there. And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow. To the rushing water, speak: I am.”

Source: In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus

“What makes humans human is precisely that they do not know the future. That is why they do the fateful and amusing things they do: who can say how anything will turn out? Therein lies the only hope for redemption, discovery, and-let’s be frank—fun, fun, fun! There might be things people will get away with. And not just motel towels. There might be great illicit loves, enduring joy, faith-shaking accidents with farm machinery. But you have to not know in order to see what stories your life’s efforts bring you. The mystery is all.”

Source: The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore