Quotes About Wonder

And [she] proceeded to insult ... anyone she happened to remember at the moment, with such power and originality that the soldiers listened in wonder to vituperation that transcended their wildest dream of profanity and filth.

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

All that I saw and learned was a new delight to me...

Birth is a mystery. Words are not enough.

What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.

It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real.

But the more I see of the damage simplistic thinking can do, the more I admire and cling to John Keats's notion of "negative capability" which he defined as the capacity to dwell in ambiguity or paradox without any "irritable reaching after fact and reason." To allow room for wonder, speculation, uncertainty.

But she continued to wonder what the fish tasted like, so brilliant and vivid pink. Would it taste pink?

Stare up at the stars, Don't be fearful of the night.For, it is the darkness, That lets us know the light.

We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life and art with wonder.

Since the universe is stupid, it's no wonder that social Darwinism tends to support, promote and finance the evolution of fools.

One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy.

All food is the gift of the gods and has something of the miraculous, the egg no less than the truffle.

The more I fly, the more I'm convinced that the true wonder of modern aviation is the transformation of tasteless particles into something known as airplane food.

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

There's no subtext in Harry Potter really; it's all magic, anything can happen. Why do I say this? Because it's a magic spell. It's quite nice in a way. There is a real freedom to it.

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth. You're an idiot babe, it's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.