Stuart A. Levey Quotes

I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see.

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

I love being in the world of the unknown.

More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.

As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.

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

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

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

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

I don't know what's on the other side.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

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.

For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way.

It is good to love the unknown.

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

Science is about exploring the unknown and cannot offer guarantees.

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.

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

We sort of think that science is about the known, but science is really about exploring the unknown.

The unknown is very appealing to me. I like to be surprised. I love the idea I might know less at the end of reading something than I do at the beginning.

Embrace what you don't know

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.

That's the beautiful thing about science - that it's all about things we don't understand, not just the things we do understand.

Science is exploration. The fundamental nature of exploration is that we don't know what's there. We can guess and hope and aim to find out certain things, but we have to expect surprises.