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  • There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We can just be in a world of awe and wonder. That's the best we can do.

  • I am curious about many things, and find the world around me, and the people and objects and things in it, equally fascinating. There is a great deal of that awe and wonder in me.

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  • The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable. It is a deep aesthetic passion to rank with the finest that music and poetry can deliver. It is truly one of the things that make life worth living and it does so, if anything, more effectively if it convinces us that the time we have for living is quite finite.

    Richard Dawkins (2000). “Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

    Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.229, Princeton University Press
  • When you look at yourself and feel dissatisfaction about any part of you, you will continue to attract feelings of dissatisfaction, because the law mirrors back to you exactly what you are holding inside. Be in awe and wonder at the magnificence of you!

    Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.243, Simon and Schuster
  • The knowledgeable person lives with a question mark '?' and the man of awe and wonder lives with an exclamation mark.

  • What better way to learn about life in the ocean--and how we are changing it--than through stories of blind zombie worms, immortal jellyfish, and unicorns of the sea? The Extreme Life of the Sea is an insightful book that inspires awe and wonder about our ocean, and brilliantly shows us the immense possibilities of life on Earth.

    Ocean   Book   Sea  
  • I'd known that I had the capacity to love, that I enjoyed seeing other people be happy, that I had a real awe and wonder about the beauty of this world.

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  • To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt banal. They all arouse awe and wonder.

    Jane Jacobs (2007). “Dark Age Ahead”, p.65, Vintage
  • There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt is awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

    Beautiful   Art   Eye  
  • In the original language, 'Fear the Lord' doesn't mean be afraid. It means sustaining a joyful, astonished awe, and wonder before Him.

  • The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

    Beauty   Girly   Children  
    Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.83, Princeton University Press
  • Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me... Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

    "Critique of Practical Reason". Book by Immanuel Kant, 1788.
  • By cutting ourselves off from the rest of creation, we are left bereft of awe and wonder and therefore of reverence and gratitude. We violate our very beings, and we have nothing but trivia to teach our young.

    "The Reinvention of Work". Book by Matthew Fox, New York: Harper, p. 128, 1994.
  • Self-esteem is the result of recognizing our personal power; awe and wonder come from recognizing our lack of it. Both are true, and in an exceptional life there is no conflict between them.

  • Nothing is more contagious than genuine love and genuine care. Nothing is more exhilarating than authentic awe and wonder. Nothing is more exciting than to witness people having the courage to fight for their highest vision.

    Michael Lerner (2000). “Spirit Matters”, Hampton Roads Publishing Company Incorporated
  • Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

    Critique of Practical Reason conclusion (1788) (translation by Lewis White Beck)
  • I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

    Life   Faith   Religious  
    "How to Argue and Win Every Time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.
  • If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life.

    Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media
  • The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.

    Beauty   Spiritual   Men  
  • In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

    "Parts of Animals". Book by Aristotle. Book I, 645a.16,
  • If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.

    Nature   Children   Years  
    Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media
  • To early man, trees were objects of awe and wonder. The mystery of their growth, the movement of their leaves and branches, the way they seemed to die and come again to life in spring, the sudden growth of the plant from the seed - all these appeared to be miracles as indeed they still are, miracles of nature!

  • Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

    "Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D". Documentary, www.imdb.com. 2005.
  • Instead of a bottom-line based on money and power, we need a new bottom-line that defines productivity and creativity as where corporations, governments, schools, public institutions, and social practices are judged as efficient, rational and productive not only to the extent they maximize money and power, but to the extent they maximize love and caring, ethical and ecological sensitivity, and our capacities to respond with awe and wonder at the grandeur of creation.

  • What is sacred is what is worthy of our reverence, what evokes awe and wonder in the human heart, and what, when contemplated, transforms us utterly.

    Phil Cousineau (2012). “The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred”, p.30, Conari Press
  • Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

    Letter to the editor, Science, 19 Jan. 1968.
  • The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

  • The job of a teacher is to excite in the young a boundless sense of curiosity about life, so that the growing child shall come to apprehend it with an excitement tempered by awe and wonder.

    Teacher   Jobs   Children  
  • Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.31, St. Martin's Press
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