Quotes About Wonder

When will we learn that childhood is in a great sense not simply a preparation for adult life but a thing unique and complete in itself – a masterpiece of God.

An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five year old.

The world is an empty place if we keep our minds shut! But eyes wide open and the world explodes with wonderment completely at our figertips!

Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and beauty of the world. And it's breathtaking.

It is like the point where the rainbow touches the forest. We think that we can see it—but if we go to look for it, it isn't there.

What are we, in this boundless and glowing world?

Nature is our home, and in nature we are at home. This strange, multicoloured and astonishing world which we explore – where space is granular, time does not exist, and things are nowhere – is not something that estranges us from our true selves, for this is only what our natural curiosity reveals to us about the place of our dwelling. About the stuff of which we ourselves are made.

Life on Earth gives only a small taste of what can happen in the universe.

It is not against nature to be curious: it is our nature to be so.

Within the immense ocean of galaxies and stars we are in a remote corner; amidst the infinite arabesques of forms which constitute reality we are merely a flourish among innumerably many such flourishes.

The mystery of time has always troubled us, stirring deep emotions. So deep as to have nourished philosophies and religions.

Wonder is the source of our desire for knowledge,1 and the discovery that time is not what we thought it was opens up a thousand questions.

To accept uncertainty doesn't detract from our sense of mystery.

In un caso e nell'altro, il premio è la bellezza, e occhi nuovi per vedere il mondo.

It is not against nature to be curious: it is in our nature to be so. One

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Here, on the edge of what we know, in contact with the ocean of the unknown, shines the mystery and the beauty of the world. And it's breathtaking.

to inquire about the ultimate foundation of everything is to ask a question that perhaps simply does not make sense.

If we see a child playing on the beach, it is only because between him and ourselves there is this lake of vibrating lines that transport his image to us. Is the world not marvelous?

One hundred thousand years ago our species left Africa, compelled perhaps by precisely this curiosity, learning to look ever farther afield. Flying over Africa by night, I wondered if one of these distant ancestors setting out toward the wide-open spaces of the North could have looked up into the sky and imagined a distant descendant flying up there, pondering on the nature of things, and still driven by his very same curiosity.

Yukar?da o kadar büyük bir uzay var ki, çok s?radan bir galaksinin bu ücra kö?esinde özel bir ?eyler oldu?unu dü?ünmek çocukça olur.

Nel mare immenso di galassie e di stelle, siamo un infinitesimo angolo sperduto; fra gli arabeschi infiniti di forme che compongono il reale, noi non siamo che un ghirigoro fra tanti

Because science shows us how to better understand the world, but it also reveals to us just how vast is the extent of what is still not known. The

It is not against nature to be curious: it is in our nature to be so.