Wonder Quotes

"You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars."

Thomas Traherne

"I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet."

Sally Ride

"The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. None of the other planets even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet."

Chris Hadfield

"If you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in front of you in a matter of moments."

Neil deGrasse Tyson

"Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!"

John Muir

"From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere."

Dr. Seuss

"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about?"

L. M. Montgomery

"Those who don't believe in magic will never find it."

Roald Dahl

"The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"Science is the poetry of reality."

Richard Dawkins

"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist."

Stephen Hawking

"Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature."

Michael Faraday

"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

Carl Sagan

"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."

Albert Einstein

"Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."

"There is grandeur in this view of life... from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."

Charles Darwin

"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

Eden Phillpotts

"World is crazier and more of it than we think, Incorrigibly plural."

Louis MacNeice

"The universe is made of stories, not of atoms."

Muriel Rukeyser

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."

"Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement."

Christopher Fry

"Every good poem begins in language awakened by a sense of wonder."

Edward Hirsch

"To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour."

William Blake

"The world is charged with the grandeur of God."

Gerard Manley Hopkins