Quotes About Awe

We have a universe. It is a place of most wondrous and gratifying possibility, and beautiful, too. And it was all done in about the time it takes to make a sandwich.

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

There's something satisfying, I think," Evans said, "about the idea of light travelling for millions of years through space and just at the right moment as it reaches Earth someone looks at the right bit of sky and sees it.

We live on a planet that more or less has an infinite capacity to surprise.

Thankfully for us, water seems unaware of the rules of chemistry or laws of physics. Everyone

Thankfully for us, water seems unaware of the rules of chemistry or laws of physics.

To me that was just a miracle. That has been my position with science ever since. Excited

It was one of those buildings that you don't so much as look at as bathe in.

satisfyingly dizzying

saw him looking up at her and what she was doing the way the eyes of saints are painted when they are looking up at God when he is doing something remarkable, something that identifies him as God.

Le silence eternel des ces espaces infinis m'effraie - The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces terrifies me

The eternal silence of these infinite places fills me with dread.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread.

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there...now instead of then.

l'silence eternal de ces espaces infinis m'effraie

Bu sonsuz mekânlar?n ebedi suskunluÄŸu beni ürkütüyor.

When I consider the brief span of my life absorbed into the eternity which comes before and after-- as the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day --the small space I occupy and which I see swallowed up in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I know nothing and which know nothing of me, I take fright and am amazed to see myself here rather than there, now rather than then.

De eeuwige stilte van deze eindeloze ruimte vervult me met angst.

What courage must a human possess to stand at ease and witness the birth of the sun.

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be...

It felt like my heart leaped up to the sky, to some intergalactic star.

Omne ignotum pro magnifico;

Being friends with an octopus-whatever that friendship meant to her-has shown me that our world, and the worlds around and within it, is aflame with shades of brilliance we cannot fathom