Quotes About Wonder

I am installed in a fairylike place. I do not know where to poke my head; everything is superb, and I would like to do everything, so I use up and squander lots of color, for there are trials to be made.

It's amazing how just one thing said by just one person in the middle of just one conversation on just one regular day can start a person wondering things she had never wondered before.

la certeza de que hay algo mucho más grande que el ser humano: algo que es ajeno y no se puede abarcar, pero que existe. Ficción, sugestión, fe, no sé cuál es la palabra adecuada.

For those of you who are about to embark on reading The Math Book from cover to cover, look for the connections, gaze in awe at the evolution of ideas, and sail on the shoreless sea of imagination.

Obviously, the final goal of scientists and mathematicians is not simply the accumulation of facts and lists of formulas, but rather they seek to understand the patterns, organizing principles, and relationships between these facts to form theorems and entirely new branches of human thought. For me, mathematics cultivates a perpetual state of wonder about the nature of mind, the limits of thoughts, and our place in this vast cosmos.

There was almost a fairy quality to this place, he thought. The far look and the clear air and the feeling of detachment that touched almost on greatness of the spirit. As if this were a special place, one of those special places that each man must seek out for himself, and count himself as lucky if he ever found it, for there were those who sought and never found it. And worst of all, there were even those who never hunted for it.

Curiosity is the light in the darkness.

Rainbows are reflections of raindrops during daytime. Stars are reflections of the beauty of nature during night-time.

Dreams out of the ivory gate, and visions before midnight. —SIR THOMAS BROWNE,

The world's longest, as far as I know, ghazal ("Bowls of Food") in its wandering wonders what's hidden in language, in the talk of plants, and in the moment, which, it says, is an embryo inside an eggshell that shatters into birth to become birdsong, and God! Such an astonishing image for the transformative edge of the present.

Everything that astonished me when I was young astonishes me even more today. The time will never come for me when there are no more discoveries to make. Every morning the world is as new again and I will not cease to flower except through death.

Le monde m'est nouveau à mon réveil, chaque matin.

A qui vit aux champs et se sert de ses yeux, tout devient miraculeux et simple. To those who dwell in the fields and use their eyes, everything becomes miraculous and simple

I have no wish to know anything which may deform life and mar its beauty. Never mind whether our gods are true or not; they are beautiful, their rule is pleasant for us, and we live without care.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

I wish I could say I'd hit upon the answers to the great mysteries of life [Huncke said a few weeks before he died at age 81]. But it doesn't make any more sense to me than it did on day one.

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.

God is the most uninteresting answer to the most interesting questions.

The isolated, self-sufficient nature of speculation spoke to his character and was a source of wonder and an end in itself, regardless of what his earnings represented or afforded him. Luxury was a vulgar burden.

This was it. Kiyomi realized it now. This was what her heart had reacted to. Her heart thrilled to mitochondria. But why?

He felt strangely moved by the thought that Toshiaki's wife had been beautiful down to her liver.

Ph??ng trình h? chí – Higashino Keigo _"Tò mò có ngh?a là b? kích thích b?i s? hi?u k? mang tính trí tu?. B? m?c s? tò mò là m?t t?i ác. B?i ngu?n n?ng l??ng l?n nh?t giúp con ng??i tr??ng thành chính là s? hi?u k? - Yukawa" - Ph??ng trình h? chí

When people call this beast to mind,They marvel more and moreAt such a little tail behind,So large a trunk before.