Oneohtrix Point Never Quotes

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.

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

Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!” and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads. (from “Mysteries, Yes”)

And to me, if you really want to rediscover wonder, you need to step outside of that tiny, terrified space of rightness and look around at each other and look out at the vastness and complexity and mystery of the universe and be able to say, “Wow, I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong.

The search for the lessons of the new science is still in progress, really in its infancy. In this realm, three is a new kind of freedom, where it is more rewarding to explore than to reach conclusions, more satisfying to wonder than to know, and more exciting to search than to stay put. Curiosity, not certainty, becomes the saving grace.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.

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

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.

But I am a lover of all kinds of art. And I just can't stick to one thing. I guess I could if I made myself, but I'd always be looking the other way, for other things.

I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

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

For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.

Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

That's what I'm interested in: the space in between, the moment of imagining what is possible and yet not knowing what that is.

I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

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

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset.