Fascinating quotes on mystery

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. Here is our best collection of mystery quotes curated by the Plotive review team.

Neil Armstrong

Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend.

Dennis Covington

In a wolrd where everyone is over exposed, the coolest thing you can do is maintain your mystery.

Anonymous

Mystery is the soul of existence.

Kedar Joshi

The mysterious eludes all words of explanation, but it is more significant than all that can be explained. There is always something beyond where we have gone.

Richard Gilbert

Mystery is an intellectual process... But suspense is essentially an emotional process.

Alfred Hitchcock

Mystery is more important than knowledge.

J. J. Abrams

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Elizabeth Bowen

Attraction is only intense when mystery is involved.

Anonymous

To remain mysterious, say little and do nothing.

Mason Cooley

Characters can be mysterious and you're not really sure which way they might turn at a given point.

Michael Zaslow

Do act mysterious. It always keeps them coming back for more.

Carolyn Keene

Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.

David Lynch

Don't be easy to define. Let them wonder about you.

Anonymous

Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.

Angela Lansbury

The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.

Benjamin Whichcote

Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

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The Birth of Fingerprint Identification

Fingerprint identification is an invaluable tool that has helped governments and law enforcement agencies identify criminals and people of interest for well over 100 years. To date, no two fingerprints have been found to be alike, making it an effective and reliable system of identification. What’s more, unlike facial features and physical characteristics which tend to change over time, barring any accidental or intentional modification or disfigurement, fingerprints remain consistent throughout adult life. As with most inventions, however, fingerprint identification was born of necessity thanks to a rather bizarre case that took place in Kansas. It may not have been the first case of the use of fingerprints for identification purposes, but it’s certainly one of the more notable ones.

Will West was a convicted criminal about to get his due. Arrested in 1903, he was sentenced to serve his prison term in Leavenworth, Kansas. There was just one problem, the prison in Leavenworth already had a prisoner named William West. Not only that, but the two men looked nearly identical, this despite not being related and never even having met! Prison officials had to quickly come up with a way to distinguish between the two men, and necessity being the mother of invention, they developed a fingerprint identification system which is still at the base of what we use today.

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