Quotes About Wonder

Perhaps poetry is another of science's deepest roots: the capacity to see beyond the visible.

It is hardly surprising that there are more things in heaven and earth, dear reader, than have been dreamed of in our philosophy—or in our physics.

Qui, sul bordo di quello che sappiamo, a contatto con l'oceano di quanto non sappiamo, brillano il mistero del mondo, la bellezza del mondo, e ci lasciano senza fiato.

Si noti il meraviglioso «Mi sembra...» iniziale, che ricorda l'«Io penso...» con cui Darwin introduce nei suoi taccuini la grande idea che le specie evolvono, o l'«esitazione» di cui parla Faraday quando nel suo libro introduce la rivoluzionaria idea di campo elettrico. Il genio esita.

The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan

Se procurar bem, você acaba encontrando não a explicação (duvidosa) da vida, mas a poesia (inexplicável) da vida.

Los cuentos bonitos siempre hacen perder la noción del tiempo y, gracias a ellos, nos salvamos del agobio de lo práctico.

Eight: the age of exploration, of ghosts and secret forays; the age at which a mystery lurks behind every curtain and every armoire opens into a magical world, which you may enter at any time, but who knows when you will return.

No jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spit hung from the blade of grass at your ear. No chandelier see you better lit than here.

Carol J. Perry

I want to kiss the bottom of the ocean before I burst through its surface into the sunlight. Otherwise I'll always be wondering about what was left unseen at the bottom.

Ah, the ocean. The movement of eternity right in front of us." (61)

I don't think a person is mature until he understands what a wonderful world he lives in and that a lifetime isn't long enough to get to know it.

Casting wistful glances at the Woodlawns' house Now

Dreaming her way backward in time, resurrecting images, the young girl realized, with wonder, that the absent are always present, that you don't make them go away simply because you get on a train and head off in a particular direction.

We are treated to an awesome sight.

The power of the human mind is a wondrous thing. Even now, we can only begin to imagine what it is capable of.

But sometimes even the sky is dangerous. I look up and see your face in the stars.

It's an honor and privilege to be next to the great mysteries, and that's what I get to do every day. Why are we here? How beautiful the Earth is. Whatever it is, large and small. There's so much that's beautiful and moving and sad, to experience that and find shapes for it, to deeply enter that meditative space. There's nothing like it. Everything else seems so pale.

I'll start with the fairy tale.

The salt water tingled my feet and made them feel so good all the rest of the day, and just to think, the same water that bathes the shores of China and Japan came clear across the ocean and bathed my feet.

All of life is slightly dependent on magic. So is death.

I bet we look great from above, lit by stars, in love.