Quotes About Wonder

There were, in other words, plenty of lovely things to discover at the time and to reminisce about later.

Pursuing an explanation for every strange thing you see in the Philippines is like trying to get every last bit of rainwater out of a discarded tire.

But because people could be so beautiful it was hard not to think that there was something of people that came from the other world

You must carry along with you a lively imagination and plenty of romance in your soul. Some of the most wonderful things in the world will seem dull and drab unless you view them in the proper light.

There is only one purpose for all of life, and that is for you and all that lives to experience fullest glory. [...] The wonder of this purpose is that it is never-ending. [...] Should there come a moment in which you experience yourself in your fullest glory, you will in that instant imagine an ever greater glory to fulfill. The more you are, the more you can become, and the more you can become, the more you can yet be.

Sometimes when you open a book, time stops.

And I'm not assuming and I'm not judging. I'm just being curious.

How can you live without stars? What keeps you from thinking about yourself all the time?

You can't see stars in New York. That's horrible. How can you live without stars? What keeps you from thinking about yourself all the time?

Life is so gorgeous, the mystery is we are not always deliriously happy.

Jamie Smart has gone home and Adrian sits on the curb at the edge of the field, the bike propped against a lamppost. He can see the back garden. He's drinking a can of Fanta. He's feeling pretty good. He's six years old. A van pulls up. The worried-looking driver gets out and jogs across the quiet road. He said, "Mate—what's your name?

Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

True science literacy is less about what you know and more about how your brain is wired for asking questions.

Each component of this trinity of human endeavor—science, religion, and art—lays powerful claim to our feelings of wonder, which derive from an embrace of the mysterious. Where mystery is absent, there can be no wonder.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science. —EDWIN P. HUBBLE (1889–1953), The Nature of Science

the only people who should have their head examined are those who never ask questions.

Everyone should have their mind blown once a day.

There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on any beach, more stars than seconds have passed since Earth formed, more stars than words and sounds ever uttered by all the humans who ever lived.

I occasionally wonder if the entire Universe is nothing more than a snow-globe on the living room mantle of a space alien.

While most branches of science have ascended in this era, the field of astrophysics persistently rises to the top. I think I know why. At one time or another every one of us has looked up at the night sky and wondered: What does it all mean? How does it all work? And, what is my place in the universe?

I do not know what I appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on a seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me. (Brewster 1860, p. 331)

We are stardust brought to life, then empowered by the universe to figure itself out—and

Look unto the stars to teach us How the master's thoughts can reach us Each one follows Newton's math Silently along its path.