Quotes About Wonder

I'm just extremely excited to explore the planet that we're living on.

I believe a child's most important job is to explore the world around them through play.

When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.

We've all had that moment, the first time you're exposed to live theater, and it's shocking in the best possible way. You see something and say to yourself, 'I didn't know this could exist.'

What an extraordinary world it is.

All I can say is that I had an extraordinary childhood.

Reality is always extraordinary.

I have not ever seen an extraterrestrial creature. That would be very cool if I did.

I fear that word, fabulous.

The most creative people have this childlike facility to play.

Facts are not interesting to me.

It's almost like my life is a fairytale.

If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.

From the beginning, the sensation of the marvelous presupposes faith.

I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute.

Movies are magical. Sometimes it just works, it catalyzes, and everything falls into place, and no one knows exactly how or why.

The first real Cassini image that brought tears to my eyes was an image of Jupiter. I didn't expect it to look so detailed.

Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.

People watched launches and tears ran down their faces, and then their kids would go jump into an encyclopedia or look online and read about rocket science. That's power.

To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.

Ted Danson is amazing. He's incredible.

How the original 'Cosmos' affected me personally was long-term. I wasn't born early enough to see the original series, but after getting a hold of it in my teen years, it was one of the driving forces behind my passion for science.

When I was in my teens, Yehudi Menuhin, who was at work on his project 'The Music of Man,' introduced me to the great astronomer Carl Sagan. It was Sagan who first opened my eyes to the magnitude of the universe, and essentially to the notion of 'music of the spheres.'

Teens are strange and magical.