Quotes About Wonder

One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas.

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once he gets an answer, he has other questions.

We must look to the heavens... for the measure of the earth.

Without science, everything is a miracle.

We are not sufficiently astonished by the fact that any science may be possible.

The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent and reinvigorate it.

[Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

We especially need imagination in science. Question everything.

God is most certainly not threatened by science; He made it all possible.

I have looked farther into space than ever a human being did before me.

I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.

Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star Biggest puzzle from afar How unlike the other ones Brighter than a billion suns Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star How I wonder what you are.

When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.

When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes.

Miracles are manifestations for which science has no definition, no analysis.

Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all - that has been my religion.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.