Nikola Tesla Quotes

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

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.

What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?

I want to make people think about certain things or have them ask the question of 'why.' I just want to always keep the people wondering.

In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. It is like the quantum world, where the more we understand its formalism, the stranger that world becomes.

Secrets and mysteries provide a beautiful corridor where you can float out. The corridor expands and many, many wonderful things can happen... I love the process of going into mystery.

The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have. So they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

Wonder. Go on and wonder.

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.

Mystery is at the heart of creativity. That, and surprise.

It's human nature to wonder.

The unknown is always interesting.

When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to see something that I don't know. I want to be surprised and stimulated to think about something. I want the magic. I want to be in a situation of uncertainty; that's what excites me.

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories.

If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.

One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?

There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.

It's important always to have a sense of wonder.

Just about every science whiz can tell you how he or she took apart the TV or the radio when they were kids just to see how it worked. To see what the world was made of. Well, when I was a kid, I took apart fairy tales to see how they worked. To see what the world was made of.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

At a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.