Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here right under our feet.

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

All the actors I respect especially old-Hollywood actors the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.

They become the keepers of the mystery. They place themselves between the communicants of the religion and the immediate experience. And then they dictate the terms on which you can have contact with this wonderful mystery. We don't dictate those terms.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

As much as the mystery element is all a lot of fun when you do go to 'Edwin Drood ' you're going to a theatre to see a show about going to a theatre and what that relationship between actors and audiences has been for years.

I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic there is mystery in it not to be explained but admired.

What constitutes a real live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days and men each one of whom is a valuable unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because in the last analysis we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.