But the brain, and in particular the vagaries of mental illness, present mysteries as deep as the elusive enigma of life itself.
But Mr. Holmes, 24, who was arrested outside the theater and has been charged in the shootings, has remained an enigma, his life and his motives cloaked by two court orders that have imposed a virtual blackout on information in the case and by the silence of the University of Colorado, Denver, where Mr. Holmes was until June a graduate student in neuroscience.
Drawing - or anyway drawing as he drew - has less to do with the sense of sight than with the sense of touch, with touching the substance and energy of things, with touching the enigma of life without thinking about eternity or the second train.
Schrödinger's argument that, in order to elucidate the enigma of life, biologists and physicists should learn to collaborate still conveys the basic logic of such a program.
"In the 'Lazarus' video, Bowie resolves the enigma of life, which he had been endeavoring to do since 1976," Wantier summarizes.
Reading Shakespeare, the Greeks, and the classics; reading for life-wisdom, nourishment, guidance and growth; reading to save one's soul and to make sense of oneself and the enigma of life -- this kind of reading rarely exists anymore.
The black box, Freud suggests, is a container of the opaque, silent mysteries of love and death, of the enigmas of life itself.
These plays introduce us to a world where there are no clear answers to the enigmas of life; where there is no progress or hope for tomorrow, no happy endings, just an endless cycle of eternal return, as we grope our way darkly while the gods mutely look on.
His death in 1982 deepens the enigma of his life.
This was a 20th-century watershed, the solution to one of the great enigmas of the life sciences that would revolutionise biochemistry.
But as Browne's high-resolution resurrection of Darwin's world proceeds, the enigmas of his life become more baffling, not less: why did his scientific peers and countrymen reject Darwinism while honoring Darwin as their greatest scientist?
