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Quotes About Wonder

The lid has come off and whatever was inside it has certainly got out. Upon the demon-ridden pilgrimage of human life, what next I wonder?
~ Iris Murdoch
And she wondered now how she could go on existing through the successive moments of her life.
~ Iris Murdoch
But these speculations are too nightmarish. Better to feel 'I shall never know'.
~ Iris Murdoch
It's just one of the wonders of the world.
~ Iris Murdoch
And she shivered with a dazzled joy.
~ Iris Murdoch
The one who has not seen Paris in the morning does not know how beautiful it is.
~ Irving Stone
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
~ Isaac Asimov
Scientific method, hell! No wonder the Galaxy was going to pot.
~ Isaac Asimov
he wondered, did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions—not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
~ Isaac Asimov
Where did the substance of the universe come from? . . If 0 equals ( + 1) + (-1), then something which is 0 might just as well become + 1 and -1. Perhaps in an infinite sea of nothingness, globs of positive and negative energy in equal-sized pairs are constantly forming, and after passing through evolutionary changes, combining once more and vanishing. We are in one of these globs between nothing and nothing and wondering about it.
~ Isaac Asimov
Él siempre estaba allí, contemplando el frío brillo de las estrellas, admirando el increíble enjambre nebuloso de un racimo de estrellas, como una conglomeración gigante de luciérnagas sorprendidas en pleno vuelo y detenidas para siempre.
~ Isaac Asimov
What is beauty, or goodness, or art, or love, or God? We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood. It's what makes us men.
~ Isaac Asimov
Perché tante persone passavano la loro vita senza cercare la risposta a tutte le domande che c'erano... anzi, senza nemmeno porsi le domande? si chiese Seldon. Nella vita, esisteva qualcosa di più eccitante della ricerca delle risposte?
~ Isaac Asimov
Inevitably, he said, What is the meaning of this? It is the precise question and precise wording thereof that has been put to the atmosphere on such occasions by an incredible variety of men since humanity was invented. It is not recorded that it has ever been asked for any purpose other than dignified effect.
~ Isaac Asimov
a las mil maravillas.
~ Isaac Asimov
Forse non esiste una fine nella scienza e ciò è anche un bene perché un universo senza misteri sarebbe insopportabilmente noioso. (da Il libro di biologia )
~ Isaac Asimov
Inevitably, he said, What is the meaning of this? It is the precise question and precise wording thereof that has been put to the atmosphere on such occasions by an incredible variety of men since humanity was invented. In it not recorded that it has ever been asked for any purpose other than dignified effect.
~ Isaac Asimov
Jehoshaphat!
~ Isaac Asimov
Why, he wondered, did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions - not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
~ Isaac Asimov
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
The Rabbi thought he saw an expression of perplexity in the golem's eyes. It seemed to the Rabbi that his eyes were asking, 'Who am I? Why am I here? What is the secret of my being? Rabbi Leib often saw the same bewilderment in the eyes of newborn children and even in the eyes of animals.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
The main thing is, the audience should be curious to know what's going to happen next.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
Los jóvenes vieron los ciclos inevitables de vida, muerte, transformacion y renacimiento como un maravilloso dibujo en el cual todo ocurre simultáneamente, sin pasado, presente o futuro, ahora desde siempre y para siempre.
~ Isabel Allende
los juegos nocturnos.
~ Isabel Allende