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Quotes About Wonder

Nevertheless, he had, on a certain star-lit evening, said wonderingly and quite reverently: Deh moon looks like hell, don't it?
~ Stephen Crane
nothing is so much to be regretted as the universe.
~ Stephen Crane
there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.
~ Stephen Fry
It is enough to say that the Greeks thought it was Chaos who, with a massive heave, or a great shrug, or hiccup, vomit or cough, began the long chain of creation that has ended with pelicans and penicillin and toadstools and toads, sea-lions, lions, human beings and daffodils and murder and art and love and confusion and death and madness and biscuits.
~ Stephen Fry
When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder meets pleasure the result is a Triumph. Dr Grordbort is the future. And the past. Which makes an ideal present.
~ Stephen Fry
When you do not understand how something works it is perhaps natural to question and to doubt.
~ Stephen Fry
Their myths understand that whoever created this baffling world, with its cruelties, wonders, caprices, beauties, madness, and injustice, must themselves have been cruel, wonderful, capricious, beautiful, mad, and unjust. The Greeks created gods that were in their image: warlike but creative, wise but ferocious, loving but jealous, tender but brutal, compassionate but vengeful.
~ Stephen Fry
Unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing
~ Stephen Fry
I will never forget my puzzlement when, in a vocabulary list, it presented the verb thaumazo, offering this helpful thought: "thaumazo, I wonder, or marvel at. This is easily remembered by thinking of the English word 'thaumaturge.'" And I suppose that was true, since I've never forgotten it.
~ Stephen Fry
He had just reached the pavement and gave now the smallest, quickest of glances back up the hill, in our direction. Our eyes didn't meet, but I saw that he was even more beautiful than I had supposed. Even more beautiful than I had ever imagined it was possible to imagine imagining beauty. Beautiful in a way that made me realise that I had never even known before what beautiful really meant: not in people, nature, taste or sound.
~ Stephen Fry
Each moment, the world washes its hands of you, starts all over again. Easy as that. Wonderful as that.
~ Stephen Graham Jones
To know how cherries and strawberries taste, ask children and birds. GOETHE
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up. Unleash your imagination. Shape the future.
~ Stephen Hawking
We find ourselves in a bewildering world. We want to make sense of what we see around us and to ask: What is the nature of the universe? What is our place in it and where did it and we come from? Why is it the way it is?
~ Stephen Hawking
I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
~ Stephen Hawking
As a father, I would try to instill the importance of asking questions, always.
~ Stephen Hawking
So, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult may life seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up. Unleash your imagination. Shape the future.
~ Stephen Hawking
But humans are a curious species. We wonder, we seek answers. Living in this vast world that is by turns kind and cruel, and gazing at the immense heavens above, people have always asked a multitude of questions: How can we understand the world in which we find ourselves? How does the universe behave? What is the nature of reality? Where did all this come from? Did the universe need a creator?
~ Stephen Hawking
Nevertheless, it seems clear that there are relatively few ranges of values for the numbers that would allow the development of any form of intelligent life. Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
~ Stephen Hawking
The human mind is an incredible thing. It can conceive of the magnificence of the heavens and the intricacies of the basic components of matter. Yet for each mind to achieve its full potential, it needs a spark. The spark of enquiry and wonder.
~ Stephen Hawking
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just give up.
~ Stephen Hawking
On what he thinks about all day "Women. They are a complete mystery.
~ Stephen Hawking
real science can be far stranger than science fiction, and much more satisfying.
~ Stephen Hawking
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
~ Stephen Hawking