Quotes About Wonder

In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.

We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we've lost respect for movement in our planet.

Awe and respect are two different things.

I don't myself need that role for God. My view is that creation itself, the universe itself, is the most wonderful thing deserving awe and respect. And that satisfies me as my substitute for God.

I think it is a pity to lose the romantic side of flying and simply to accept it as a common means of transport, although that end is what we have all ostensibly been striving to attain.

I've just been to the Taj Mahal which I'd never been to and I'm not a very romantic kind of guy but it is the most romantic thing I've ever seen.

I feel wonderful because I see the love light in your eyes, and the wonder of it all is you just don't realize how much I love you.

At long last love has arrived, and I thank God I'm alive. You're just too good to be true, can't take my eyes off of you.

I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

Love can be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

Whenever I'm sad I just imagine if babies were born with mustaches.

She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.

As he caught his footing, his head fell back, and the Milky Way flowed down inside him with a roar.

The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night.

Was this the bright vastness the poet Bash? saw when he wrote of the Milky Way arched over a stormy sea?

Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers will always be children. So you're right, it's a child's question, just as it should be.

Listen." I tugged at my neighbor. "Just listen to me! You must-you must give me an answer: out there, where your finite universe ends! What is out there, beyond it?

They say there are flowers that bloom only once every hundred years. Why shouldn't there be some that bloom only once every thousand, every ten thousand years? Maybe we just haven't heard about them up to now because this very day is that once-in-a-thousand-years.

Dicen que hay unas flores que sólo se abren y florecen cada cien años. Y ¿por qué no han de haber otras que florezcan una vez cada mil e incluso cada diez mil años? Quizá no lo hayamos sabido por la simple razón de que este «una vez cada mil años» acontece precisamente hoy.

They say there is a kind of flower that blooms only once a century, Then couldn't there be one that flowers only once every thousand years - or once every ten thousand years? Maybe there are and we just don't know it because today is itself that once-in-a-thousand-year moment.

Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.

Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers have to be children. Precisely like children, and there should always be: but what next?

Dicen que hay flores que sólo despuntan una vez cada cien años. ¿Y por qué no hay otras que florezcan cada mil o cada diez mil años? Tal vez hasta ahora no lo hayamos sabido por la sencilla razón de que esa vez-cada-mil-años toca precisamente hoy.

Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers are invariably children.