Quotes About Wonder

How often did people consider the wonder of their own construction? Pause to reflect on the miracle of a DNA blueprint inside a single fertilized egg capable of directing the creation of an entire human being? Not just trillions of cells working in concert, but a hundred billion neurons somehow managing to become a vessel for consciousness.

Would extraordinarily advanced alien beings really traverse this unimaginable gulf just to blast patterns in our cornfields, mutilate our cows, and probe our anuses? Surely they'd have better things to do.

Douglas E. Richards

We've all heard Arthur C. Clarke's famous quote by now," said Hoyer. "It's become so common, I think they're printing it on fortune cookies. But it's also true." "You mean, 'any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic'?" said Reed.

What do want with us?

Who are you?" he whispered.

Or, as the great physicist Freeman Dyson observed, 'The laws of nature are constructed in such a way as to make the universe as interesting as possible.

Douglas E. Richards

mind is pretty miraculous. Who knows, perhaps

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." —Arthur C. Clarke

Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.

You're an original, an individual, a masterpiece. Celebrate that; don't let your uniqueness make you shy. Don't be someone other than the wonder you are. Every star is important to the sky.

What is that?" Dad said, looking at the doll. "It's called the Scream," I said. "I know that, but what us it?" Dad said. "Maybe she sleeps with it," I said to Dad as he tucked it under his arm. "Then no wonder it's screaming," he said.

Modern evangelicals like to compare holy things to soft drinks, designer clothes, [and other products in] our modern consumerist culture. The problem with this is not ... the comparison to a created thing. The problem is that it is ... bad poetry. The Bible compares God to very mundane things, but does so with poetic wonder. God "shall come down like rain upon the mown grass; as showers that water the earth.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.

A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

Oh, the thinks you can think!

And what would you do if you met a jibboo?

Reading can take you places you have never been before.

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

And that is a story that no one can beat, When I say that I saw it on Mulberry Street.

Young cat! If you keep Your eyes open enough, Oh, the stuff you will learn! The most wonderful stuff!