Quotes About Wonder

Sometimes, even by accident, the universe makes beauty, and we can stand back in awe of it. Even better - we can figure out why. Science! I love this stuff.

The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.

The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.

I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

Anybody who grew up with the space program is a fan of science fiction.

Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle; wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, "There are no answers."

Modern science should indeed arouse in all of us a humility before the immensity of the unexplored and a tolerance for crazy hypotheses.

People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

There are all kinds of interesting questions that come from a knowledge of science, which only adds to the excitement and mystery and awe of a flower.

I think one of the most fertile, unexplored areas for poets and fiction writers is the world of science. I become overwhelmed by the science world.

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

William knows that science and magic are the same thing; magic is only science that hasn't been explained yet. Tonight he has made chemistry into magic for her.

There is one thing that all true spirituality has in common, whether that spirituality is derived from faith, from science, from nature or from the arts - a sense of wonder.

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.

The science of the earth... invites us to be present at the origin of things, and to enter into the very worship of the Creator.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

I feel genius in great works of art. I have seen medical cures that science can't explain, some seemingly triggered by faith. The same is true of millions of other people.