Quotes About Wonder

If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.

A man does not wonder at what he sees frequently, even though he be ignorant of the reason. If anything happens which he has not seen before, he calls it a prodigy.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

The mind of man is a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells.

The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.

And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

I saw God! Do you doubt it? Do you dare to doubt it? I saw the Almighty Man! His hand Was resting on a mountain!

When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

A scientist should be the happiest of men.

Every man expects some miracle — either from his mind or from his body or from someone else or from events.

God gave man an upright countenance to survey the heavens, and to look upward to the stars.

I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax!

I never met a man who was shaken by a field of identical blades of grass. An acre of poppies and a forest of spruce boggle no one's mind.

Apart from man, no being wonders at its own experience.

Humanity . . . lies in man's capacity to question the known and imagine the unknown.

A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

They were watching, out there past men's knowing, where stars are drowning and whales ferry their vast souls through the black and seamless sea.

Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion.

How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky?

Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.

Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it's got everything, man. It's got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It's beautiful.