Unsolved Mysteries Quotes

• The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.

  Freeman Dyson

  Mystery, Conscious, Existence

  "Progress In Religion". Freeman Dyson's Acceptance Speech for the Templeton Prize at the Washington National Cathedral, www.edge.org. May 16, 2000.

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• The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

  Edna Buchanan

  Moving, Past, Target

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• Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Secret, Brain, Mystery

  "How Does the Brain Work?". "NOVA scienceNOW", www.pbs.org. September 14, 2011.

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• When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Life, Depression

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Life itself is an unsolved mystery", said the clergyman gravely.

  Agatha Christie

  Mystery, Clergymen, Said

  Agatha Christie (2012). “The Tuesday Night Club: A Miss Marple Short Story”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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• The human brain is the only object in the known universe that can predict its own future and tell its on fortune. The fact that we can make disastrous decisions even as we foresee their consequences is the great, unsolved mystery of human behavior. When you hold your fate in your hands, why would you ever make a fist?

  Daniel Gilbert

  Fate, Hands, Decision

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• The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational Love, Faces, Lovers

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• The bus scares me. Way too many gross people on the bus. Sixty-five people on the bus and I was the last one on. I felt like calling Unsolved Mysteries. 'Yeah, I found everybody.

  Kathleen Madigan

  People, Scare, Calling

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• Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Long, People, News

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• …there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being.

  Kate Chopin

  Powerful, Believe, Persistence

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