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Quotes About Wonder

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
I was like I was in science class: I was curious.
~ Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.
~ Jo Walton, Among Others
Science can't tell you why anything happens.
~ Michael Crichton
'Arcturus' is his other name- I'd rather call him 'Star.' It's very mean of Science To go and interfere!
~ Emily Dickinson
Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.
~ Thomas M. Disch
Im a massive science fiction and fantasy geek.
~ Robert Kazinsky
It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration - you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit.
~ Dimitar Sasselov
Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.
~ Edward Abbey
Science produces an incomparably lyrical state in this man.
~ Ernest Solvay
A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into.
~ George Carlin
Fantasy and science fiction stories are very applicable to talking to your children about the world. They tend to talk about the big questions regarding life and the universe.
~ Stephen H. Segal
It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The Sun, the stars and the seasons as they pass, some can gaze upon these with no strain of fear.
~ Horace
Magic could not be measured and explained in scientific terms, for magic grew through destroying the very natural principles that made science as people knew it impossible.
~ Ilona Andrews
The universe has no sides, no end, can't be mapped. Enough to make a man talk about God, make a man superstitious and worship an idol. The science never gets as far as the strangeness.
~ Jeanette Winterson
...it's the process of losing oneself in the jungle that makes science worth doing.
~ Joao Magueijo
A day ago, the sight of a man removing his face would have blown thick chunks of Aiden's mind out the back of his head, but not today. Today Aiden was fresh out of shock and running low on wonder.
~ Matt K. Turner, GENESIS
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
~ Ralph W. Sockman
Nature is a divine art.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
As we delight in the strange and exotic beauty of orchid flowers, it is salutary to reflect that we are, in essence, looking at their genitalia.
~ Unknown British Biologist
.....The biggest mystery of nature is nature.
~ Farooq A. Shiekh
We live in the most epic of fantasy worlds.
~ T.L. Rese