Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had.
— Alan Watts
Whopping Mystery Solved quotations
We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living.

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.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived.
Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
Acoustic phonetics, which is developing and increasing in richness very rapidly, already enables us to solve many of the mysteries of sound, mysteries which motor phonetics could not even begin to solve.

When you need to stop an asteroid, you get Superman.
When you need to solve a mystery, you call Batman. But when you need to end a war, you get Wonder Woman.
We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.
Ned said "Nancy Drew is the best girl detective in the whole world!" "Don't you believe him," Nancy said quickly. "I have solved some mysteries, I'll admit, and I enjoy it, but I'm sure there are many other girls who could do the same.
It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid.
Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.

When you have solved all the mysteries of life you long for death, for it is but another mystery of life.
Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.
The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

Our primordial purpose is to respond to the impulsion from within to solve the mystery of our individual existence, to find and be the authentic Self that is, has been and ever shall be.
When we come upon assurances that a mystery has been solved, we go on investigating.
What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?

My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries.
It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems.
Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but high suspense writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.
We think we have solved the mystery of creation.
Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

Love interest nearly always weakens a mystery because it introduces a type of suspense that is antagonistic to the detective's struggle to solve a problem.
The hardest mysteries to solve are the ones you come to near the end, because there isn't enough evidence, not enough to unravel, unless somehow you can go all the way back to the beginning - rewind and replay everything.
I think when I started to write The Mysterious Benedict Society that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that.

Some things will always remain a mystery at this level of consciousness, and it is right that they should. So do not try to solve all the mysteries. Give the universe a chance. It will unfold itself in due course. Enjoy the experience of becoming.
Every mystery solved brings us to the threshold of a greater one.
Mysteries simply are a feast for an active mind.
And while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery. For example, do I wear a toupee?

Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.
There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
I thought that was the coolest thing in the world, the idea of somebody trying to solve mysteries. I would see conspiracies in everything. I think I believed in leprechauns longer than any of my fellow classmates because I tried to catch them.

Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature.
Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.
At the beginning of each lecture I say, 'Here's a set of events unexplainable by common sense, and I promise you'll be able to solve this mystery at the end of class.'
Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner.
We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events.
She always has close calls when she solves a mystery!
We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal high road of respectability and duty, and then complain of those ways being so intricate and so dark. We stand bewildered before the mystery of our own making, and the riddles of life that we will not solve, and then accuse the great Sphinx of devouring us.