Quotes About Wonder

Why' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet does not go 'A B C D What? When? How?' but it does go 'V W X Why? Z.

You're so unhip, it's a wonder your bum doesn't fall off.

The Universe is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore. Many would happily move to somewhere rather smaller of their own devising, and this is what most beings in fact do.

Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

One conservation worker we met said he sometimes wondered if the mating call of the male didn't actively repel the female, which is the sort of biological absurdity you otherwise find only in discotheques.

That is really amazing.' he said. 'That really is truly amazing. That is so amazingly amazing I think I'd like to steal it.

And wow! Hey! What's this thing suddenly coming toward me very fast? Very, very fast. So big and flat and round, it needs a big wide-sounding name like Ã¢â'¬Â¦ ow Ã¢â'¬Â¦ ound Ã¢â'¬Â¦ round Ã¢â'¬Â¦ ground! That's it! That's a good name—ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me? And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.

The simple truth is that interstellar distance will not fit the human imagination.

You mean, said Arthur, you mean you can see into my mind? Yes, said Marvin. Arthur stared in astonishment. And ...? he said. It amazes me how you can manage to live in anything that small.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting.

Mr. Beeblebrox, sir,' said the insect in awed wonder, 'you're so weird you should be in movies.; 'Yeah,' said Zaphod patting the thing on a glittering pink wing, 'and you, baby, should be in real life.' The insect paused for a moment

The first thing that hit their eyes was what appeared to be a coffin. And the next four thousand nine hundred and ninety nine things that hit their eyes were also coffins.

There is a moment in every dawn when light floats, there is the possibility of magic. Creation hold its breath.

People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what's so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what's so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.

There's only ever been one good answer to that question "Why?" and perhaps we should have that in the alphabet as well. There's room for it. "Why?" doesn't have to be the last word, it isn't even the last letter. How would it be if the alphabet ended, "V W X Why? Z," but "V W X Why not?" Don't ask stupid questions. —

Non è sufficiente credere alla bellezza di un giardino? Che bisogno c'è di credere che nasconda delle fate?

It seems odd, don't you think, that the quality of the food should vary inversely with the brightness of the lighting. Makes you wonder what culinary heights the kitchen staff could rise to if you confined them to perpetual darkness.

I'm a scientist and I know what constitutes proof. But the reason I call myself by my childhood name is to remind myself that a scientist must also be absolutely like a child. If he sees a thing, he must say that he sees it, whether it was what he thought he was going to see or not. See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

Arthur felt at a bit of a loss. There was a whole galaxy of stuff out there for him, and he wondered if it was churlish of him to complain to himself that it lacked just two things: the world he was born on and the woman he loved.

Argi nepakanka matyti, kad sodas nuostabus, negi b?tina tik?ti, kad jame dar slapstosi ir f?jos?

All this Magrathea nonsense seemed juvenile. Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? All

Genügt es denn nicht, dass ein Garten schön ist, ohne dass man unbedingt glauben muss, dass Feen darin hausen?

He wondered if it was safe to grin. Very slowly and carefully, he grinned. It was safe.