strangeness quotes

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Essays, no.43,'Of Beauty'.

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

- SirArthur Conan Doyle
  A Study in Scarlet, ch.7.

Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.

- Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell
  The Problems of Philosophy, ch.1.