Wonder Quotes - Page 3

It looks like the whole city is made out of stars.

I never really grew up until I had kids.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?

But I should not have to explain to you how important it is for science and simplicity to coexist. One must not fear to be a little child again, when times of wonder are at hand.

Those, therefore, who effect to despise "profane" Science are themselves despicable. It is their own incapacity for true Thought of any serious kind, their vanity and pertness; nay more also! their own subconsciousness sense of their own shame and idleness, that induces them to build these flimsy fortification of pretentious ignorance.

To base the unexplainabilty and the immense wonder of nature onto an other miracle (God) is unnecessary and not acceptable for any serious thinker.

[Diary entry, 1971]

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

I know it does not matter that I do not understand.

Success is realising the true joy and wonder of life can only be yours if you follow your own intuition, aiming to achieve your bliss.

Wonder feeds our best intelligence and is perhaps its source.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

It makes me wonder, Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives? I don't know.

From all that I saw,
and everywhere I wandered,
I learned that time cannot be spent,
It only can be squandered.

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!

As someone who struggles with anxiety and cowardice, as we all do, I’m profoundly inspired by. . . . full-on commitment to wonder, to wonder as a response to anguish or difficulty. It makes everything a puzzle, right? A catastrophe is nothing but a puzzle with the volume of drama turned up very high.

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.

The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?