Mark Oliphant Quotes

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

The heart has a yearning for the unknown, a longing to penetrate the deep shadow and the winding glade, where, as it seems, no human foot has been.

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.

An unknown must be recognized as being unknown in order to be explored.

Between truth and the search for it, I choose the second.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

I'm on a search for the truth.

One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.

What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know.

Things that are unknown attract us.

What you know is always a little less attractive to you than what you don't know.

I see the world as an adventure thriller and a voyage of discovery. To me, all lives are lives of mystery and secrecy, and that's what I write about.

I've always been interested in what else is here, what lies beneath.

I've always liked discovering things.

People dig exploration.

The word "question" originates from the Latin root, quaestio, which means "to seek." Inside the word "question" is the word "quest," suggesting that within every question is an adventure, a pursuit which can lead us to hidden treasure.

Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it.

I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

I'm naturally attracted to something I don't understand because when you try to deal with something you don't understand, it opens a door into another world.

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.