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  • Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

    Love   Math   Science  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.79, Harvard University Press
  • The late great Horace Lloyd Swithin (1844-1917), British essayist, lecturer, satirist, and social observer, wrote in his autobiographical Appointments, 1890-1901 (1902), "When one travels abroad, one doesn't so much discover the hidden Wonders of the World, but the hidden wonders of the individuals with whom one is traveling. They may turn out to afford a stirring view, a rather dull landscape, or a terrain so treacherous one finds it's best to forget the entire affair and return home.

    Home   Views   World  
    Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.280, Penguin
  • So, I'm the Eighth Wonder of the World. It's flattering and very, very funny.

  • Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.

    Men   World   Wonder  
  • The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

    Nature   Mind   World  
    John Burroughs (1913). “The Writings of John Burroughs”
  • Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

    1902 The Story of My Life.
  • The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.

    "Tremendous Trifles". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1909.
  • It is the exact experience of mathematics. Not merely the adding up of your grocery bill, or the daily uses that we make of number. But the great concept of a universal exactitude, that numbers are an instrument of magic. And by means of them, men can unlock all the wonders of the world.

    Mean   Men   Numbers  
  • Compounding is the 8th wonder of the world.

  • One of the ceaseless wonders of the world: The power of a smile.

  • Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

    Men   World   Wonder  
    Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes, Robert Whitelaw (1938). “Ten Greek Plays”
  • Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

    Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.59, Macmillan
  • Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

  • I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.

    Home   Sloth   World  
    William Shakespeare (1873). “Shakespeare's Comedy of The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, p.3
  • A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, and the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the world.

  • 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
  • seven wonders of the world and I have to ask for an eighth fill a bottle with some prayers and spend them on hope create an easy route just so I can complicate send my heart down that slippery slope

    Prayer   Heart   Bottles  
    David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.36, Knopf Books for Young Readers
  • American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

    Doors   World   Wonder  
    "Lincoln Chafee DNC speech". www.politico.com. September 5, 2012.
  • Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths in diameter! Yet we take a spider web for granted, as a nuisance in the house rather than as one of the wonders of the world. And think of the furore if Jane Goodall returned from Gombe stream with photographs of wild chimpanzees building their own houses, well roofed and insulated, of painstakingly selected stones neatly bonded and mortared! Yet caddis larvae, who do precisely that, command only passing interest.

  • To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.

    "Auguries of Innocence" l. 1 (ca. 1803)
  • If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

    Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media
  • 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
  • Nothing can be more certain than this: that we are just beginning to learn something of the wonders of the world on which we live and move and have our being.

    Moving   World   Wonder  
    William Ramsay (1909). “Essays Biographical and Chemical”
  • 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.
  • The natural power of breastfeeding is one of the greatest wonders of the world. It is about real love. It is about caring and celebrating the wondrous joy of nurturing a new life. It is about enjoying being a woman.

    Real   Caring   Joy  
  • When I found the beautiful white bones in the desert I picked them up and took them home too...I have used these things to say what is to me the wideness and wonder of the world as I live in it.

    Beautiful   Home   White  
    Britta Benke, Georgia O'Keeffe (2000). “O'Keeffe”
  • It is a callous age; we have seen so many marvels that we are ashamed to marvel more; the seven wonders of the world have become seven thousand wonders.

    Age   World   Wonder  
    "Julius Caesar: An Appreciation of the Hollywood Production". "The Mercury" Newspaper, June 15, 1916.
  • Rahul had wondered how someone could love their beloved so much that their dedication to them became one of the wonders of the world.

  • Being a human being is all about experiencing all of the wonders of the world and therefore as an actress, I'm open to any opportunity that may enrich my horizon.

  • The decay of the late, great country of South Africa is beginning to become apparent. The name of the Transvaal has been officially changed to 'Gauteng.' (One of our friends has suggested that in view of this its inhabitants in the future should be referred to as Oranggautengs.) ... And now there is a move afoot to wreck the Kruger National Park, one of the wonders of the world, on the notion that a good bit of its land was 'taken from the blacks.' This idea is somewhat akin to giving Yellowstone Park back to the Blackfeet.

    Country   Taken   Moving  
    "Jeff Cooper's Commentaries". "Jeff Cooper's Commentaries", Vol. 3, No. 3, January 1995.
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