Frederick Soddy Quotes

We take comfort, however, that mystery is not a synonym for contradiction.

Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.

Secrets are the blood of life. Every big thing is a secret, even when you know it, because you never know all of it. If you can know everything about anything, it is not worth knowing.

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

The incomprehensible pleases us, the inexplicable is our friend.

Nothing important is completely explicable.

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described.

There are some things that defy explanation- kind of like. . . you know, you.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is no human solution. Mystery's offspring is not frustration but awe, and that sense of awe grows in tandem with knowledge.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

There are many things that I don't understand.

I love the unexplainable. It would be so boring to me if everything could be explained.

I don't want people to know what is true all the time and that's what keeps the mystery.

The more you play it the less you know about it.

Mystery and innocence are not akin.

Well isn’t that one thing you’re all the more wise for? Age has taught you something. It seems to me that you know the big secret. That nobody knows what’s going on

For only when I err do I get away from what I know and what I understand. If "truth" were what I can understand, it would end up being but a small truth, my-sized. Truth must reside precisely in what I shall never understand.

It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you'll be too afraid to let things keep happening. Psychology destroys the mystery, this kind of magic quality. It can be reduced to certain neuroses or certain things, and since it is now named and defined, it's lost its mystery and the potential for a vast, infinite experience.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery.