Quotes About Wonder

It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.

There's something about witnessing something in the sky that makes people think they're seeing something unique or special. I don't really understand the psychology of it, to be honest.

With the Hubble telescope and all the other things that are out there, I believe something would have come through. Today, I really believe we are unique.

Oceans, in their beauty and mystery, unite human beings whatever their situation, nationality, or faith.

When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.

Children are weird. I was going to say 'most children,' but I think this a rare universal law.

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.

We are discovering what the universe is really like, and it is totally magnificent, and one can only be inspired and awestruck by what we find.

Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be a human being? What are human beings?' Existing courses cannot help you answer those questions. They can't even help you ask them.

I'm baffled all the time. We don't know what's driving 96% of the universe. Everybody you know and love and heard of and think about and see in the night sky through a telescope: four percent of the universe.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Poppy's world is a magical place, and it's the most free part of the entire universe.

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

If one just tried to invent a universe on one's own, it would probably end up being a much less colorful and interesting universe than the one that we live in.

It's a big universe. To stay in one tiny place is doing a disservice to yourself.

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens.

Working in Isaac's universe was more of a treat than a challenge.

Narnia, Middle-earth and New York were my three fantasy universes when I was a kid.

If I had my druthers, I think a 'Cyborg' standalone would be a slightly more intimate story. One of the things that I always think is interesting with these sort of universes is, whenever there's a world-threatening crisis, it always makes you wonder, 'Where are the other members of the group? Why didn't they show up?'

I find the lure of the unknown irresistible.

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown.

The unknown is very appealing to me. I like to be surprised. I love the idea I might know less at the end of reading something than I do at the beginning.