Quotes About Wonder

And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.

The thing I like about astronomy is being outside at night and seeing the stars in a dark sky. It makes you feel small.

We forget how recently astronomers figured out what the stars are made of, what makes them shine, how distant they are, how they are born, and whether they remain immutable or evolve and die.

I don't know why. I'm fascinated with stars and space. I just love them.

When you gaze at stars and think about planets, the places it takes your imagination are amazing! You look up the sky, and you know the stars have always been here; they were referenced in biblical times and have always been present. They are somewhere up there in the future, and they guide you; they make you feel safe.

For most of my life I've liked to pretend I live in a starship. Punching in fake codes to get into doorways that obviously are not secure. I love that idea of living on a spaceship. Because essentially we are: a gigantic thing floating in some infinite darkness that's running on principles that we don't even understand.

My whole entry into astronomy started from a spiritual place.

We can be very sure that as we discover new aspects of the expanding and evolving universe, we will be startled and amazed once again.

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.

The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become an actor. If perhaps I'd stayed on at university and become an academic.

Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life trying to find a certain simplicity that you had. It's less about staying in childhood than keeping a certain spirit of seeing things in a different way.

If I do have kids, I can't wait because I'm excited to go back to school to help them with their homework and remember how to do simple math. I think it's about staying curious and not losing the sense of wonder.

Staying curious keeps me inspired.

Some things just can't be described. And stepping onto the moon was one of them.

Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.

My relationship with 'Star Wars' is that I'm old enough that I saw it when it first came out - 'A New Hope,' that is - and it was like when Dorothy steps out of black and white into Technicolor. I was transported from a gray, miserable 1970s London into a different galaxy, and I didn't know what it was, but I wanted to be a part of it.

The meanest floweret of the vale,The simplest note that swells the gale,The common sun, the air, the skies,To him are opening paradise.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity

The only value of this world lay in its power - at certain times - to suggest another world.

one must take into account the shocking fact that we live on a world that spins. After considering this truth, nothing should come as a surprise.

All that was left to us was to wonder: who knows all that is innate to this world, or to any other? Why should there not be something buried deep within appearances, something that wears a mask to hide itself behind the visibility of nature?