Quotes About Wonder

This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you.

When writing fantastical literature, your biggest problem is getting your audience to believe the fantastical elements of your story.

Birth is a beautiful thing.

I'm so grateful for every day and every moment, I ask myself what I did to deserve this blessing?

That's what I'm interested in doing: making stuff that's going to blow kids' minds for the first time.

If I had known I'd be on Matador back then in my childhood, it would have blown my mind.

If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.

I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

When you become a mum it's amazing, it blows your mind.

The only rule is never be bored.

Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here.

Life is magically beautiful. And it brings you what is perfect.

I have always loved broadcasting - as a child in Liverpool, I would wake up and listen to Morning Merseyside on BBC Radio Merseyside and wonder, 'How do they do that?'

We thought we completely understood bubbles when we were kids. But we didn't. Bubbles are these amazing things. It's just that people aren't paying enough attention.

Otherness is what I have always liked about bugs.

Like all sciences, chemistry is marked by magic moments. For someone fortunate enough to live such a moment, it is an instant of intense emotion: an immense field of investigation suddenly opens up before you.

So, when I was eight or nine my mom's friend gave her a big purple bag full of cassettes and I found Seals and Crofts' 'Summer Breeze'... When I found it I stopped going through the bag because I was like, well, I'm not going to find anything better than this. I just thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard.

Occasionally I have come across a last patch of snow on top of a mountain in late May or June. There's something very powerful about finding snow in summer.

The Alaskan summers are one of the most amazing things you can see.

When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?

I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better.

Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.

I loved Cambodia; watching the sun rise at Angkor Wat was really beautiful.

From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend.