Quotes About Wonder

And of course, when you see your brother in the toilet bowl...there's a little voice that say, 'I wonder where he would go...'...if it hadn't been for his head...

Wouldn't it be nice if there weree a planet where the sound of rain falling is like Bach?" he says. "Yes, Planet Bach," I respond. He smiles -"Yes", he murmurs- picturing it, hearing it.

And as I listened, happily, while also taking in the great beauty of my surroundings - "an attack of beauty

It is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder. K ALLISTOS W ARE

the inexhaustible pages of nature Ã¢â'¬Â¦ written over and over uncountable times, written in characters of every size and color, sentences composed of sentences, every part of a character a sentence.

When, in Paradise Lost, Adam asks about the movements of the heavens, Raphael refuses to answer. "Let it speak," he says, "the Maker's high magnificence, who built / so spacious, and his line stretcht out so far; / That man may know he dwells not in his own; / An edifice too large for him to fill, / Lodg'd in a small partition, and the rest / Ordain'd for uses to his Lord best known.

we really do live on an unbearably beautiful planet. We don't think of it often as a planet - - we live our daily lives on flat and often prosaic ground, and when we're in the air, the flight attendant usually makes us lower the window shade so as not to interfere iwth the movie.

Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.

The yearning to know about nature and where or how we fit in is deep within all of us.

A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.

If I wasn't a singer, I would be a fairy princess.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

It would be a sad day if we British stopped being cynical, but you sometimes wonder whether we overdo it.

I am installed in a fairylike place. I do not know where to poke my head; everything is superb, and I would like to do everything, so I use up and squander lots of color, for there are trials to be made.

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.

I grew up in Sacramento and spent a lot of time in the Saturday matinee. I just thought, 'Wow.' It's that magic of sitting in a dark theater as a little kid. That was in the '50s.