Quotes About Wonder

There are mountains, plains, deserts with panoramas that take your breath away.

In planes, I used to try to look behind the clouds to see if I saw an angel.

Hello from above our magnificent planet Earth.

Absolutely the most fun thing to do in space and rewarding thing, in many ways, is to look back at planet Earth.

So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.

My biggest love is still planets and stars. If I hadn't become an artist, I'd be an astronomer because I still love it so much.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

I have always had the sea as my playground.

One of the things I sort of dreamt about awhile ago is that if Einstein were still alive, it would be absolutely wonderful to go to him and tell him about the discovery, and he would have been very pleased, I'm sure of that.

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true.

We all need a bit of mystery in our lives, and rivers offer plenty of that.

The fate of poetry is to fall in love with the world.

The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.

I was raised on the classics - Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and others.

As a kid, it was always my dream to open a closet and end up fighting dragons or battling aliens.

When you do make a coaching change, it obviously does shake up everybody, it makes you wonder where you stand in the lineup.

As a baseball player, you know the commodity you're selling, but with acting, you wonder, 'What the hell am I doing that is so hot?'

That part of life is the thing that we really need to concentrate on. If you lose the way children look through their eyes at the world, it really becomes kind of a doldrum.

I think the concept of the sea is very important.

I like to write about questions that interest me, not the conclusions I've come to.

I think hope and magic are probably connected.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Finding out about Bjork was like finding out about some rare and magical thing that I had never encountered living where I was living at the time, being surrounded by the people I was surrounded by.