Quotes About Wonder

entrance of the park," I say.

Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn't raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things

I felt it was for this I had come: to wake at dawn on a hillside and look out on a world for which I had no words, to start at the beginning, speechless and without plan, in a place that still had no memories for me.

felt my face relax into a smile of distinct pleasure—nay, call it by name: pure joy. For of all the rules of beekeeping, Rule Three is prime: Never, ever, cease to feel wonder.

were she not aware that he was more than a man who could make plants grow. And

Laurie R. King

But then is not life itself a fairy-tale which we lose the power of apprehending as we grow? No matter.

Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me and then show me the place where he was hanged.

How sad if we pass through life and never see it with the eyes of a child.

Why are they sad and glad and bad? I do not know, go ask your dad.

But really, Marilla, one can't stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?

How sad that we can now go up in aeroplanes and see that there are no gods upon the clouds.

I'm sad that there no more mysterious places in the world.

If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

Believe in God like the sun up in the sky, see science can tell us how but it can't tell us why. I seen a baby cry then seconds later she laughed, the beauty of life the pain never lasts.

The World is full of wonders, but they become more Wonderful, not less Wonderful when Science looks at them.

When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist.

Science is the poetry of reality.

Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

Good science and good art are always about a condition of awe. I don't think there is any other function for the poet or the scientist in the human tribe but the astonishment of the soul.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.

Science is a perception of the world around us. Science is a place where what you find in nature pleases you.