Enigma Cipher

Famous quotes containing the words enigma and/or cipher:

    “The wounded surgeon plies the steel
    That questions the distempered part;
    Beneath the bleeding hands we feel
    The sharp compassion of the healer’s art
    Resolving the enigma of the fever chart.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. It is the highest emblem in the cipher of the world.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)