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  • The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

    Lying   Artist   World  
  • Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience.

    Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.23, Ballantine Books
  • What's interesting is, if you take the scientists and the theologians, the really good ones, they end up both filled with this wide-eyed sense of wonder and awe about look at this world we live in.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • One should never count the years -- one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I'm glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in.

  • All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next adventure.

  • It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible.

  • Motherhood - no matter if you're a working mom or stay at home mom - is really tough sometimes. It can really leave us each day with a sense of wondering if we're doing it right. You know, it's a long term investment. You don't see big returns in the short term. Raising a child can easily pull you into being hyper-focused on the tough everyday moments of life.

    Mom   Children   Home  
  • The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

  • By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.

    Summer   Adventure   Moon  
    "It's time to aim for Mars" by Buzz Aldrin, www.cnn.com. October 24, 2009.
  • Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our knowledge as to what the may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant dogmatism of those who have never travelled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familar things in an unfamilar aspect

    Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Problems of Philosophy”, p.124, Lulu.com
  • God can be addressed by any name that taste sweet to your tongue or pictured in any form that appeals to your sense of wonder and awe.

    Sweet   Names   Taste  
    FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Mar 02, 2017
  • There's a big part of me that's atheist. There's a big part of me that's agnostic. And there's a big part of me that tends towards the mystic. The thing that I find is most important in all of that is to retain my sense of wonder and the idea that I don't actually know what's going to happen.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous.

    Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.147, Canongate Books
  • Many things make the ideal magazine story . But one thing is that it calls attention to the reader to something that they never would have imagined being interested in. And you leave them with a sense of wonder. I have to think more about this.

    Source: classic.esquire.com
  • I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder.

    Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.429, Ballantine Books
  • It is not half so important to know as to feel.

    Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.21, Open Road Media
  • We are here to feel, wonder and gaze in awe at the world. Instead of just teaching our children how to use things and do things, I suggest we nourish their sense of wonder.

    Children   Teaching   Use  
  • One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ.

    Eye   Men   Light  
  • My sense of god is my sense of wonder about the universe.

  • Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.

    "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage". Book by Carl Sagan, p. 332, 1980.
  • The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing season with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas.

    Children   Rivers   Lakes  
  • At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder.

    Regret   Taken   Thinking  
    "The Meaning of Life". www.pastemagazine.com. April 10, 2008.
  • There's so much humanity in a love of trees, so much nostalgia for our first sense of wonder, so much power in just feeling our own insignificance when we are surrounded by nature.

  • It's a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.

    Life   Sunset   Ice  
    Margaret Atwood (2014). “Stone Mattress: Nine Tales”, p.16, Anchor
  • This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as anything known by material experience.

    Dog   Real   Intuition  
  • Witchcraft is, and was, not... for everyone. Unless you have an attraction to the occult, a sense of wonder, a feeling that you can slip for a few minutes out of the world into the world of faery, it is of no use to you.

    Feelings   Use   World  
  • Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.

    Wish   Prejudice   Cosmos  
    Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.362, Ballantine Books
  • Nature's beauty never fails to fill me with a sense of wonder and awe, and still, I refuse to go camping.

    FaceBook post by Dov Davidoff from Jun 09, 2012
  • ...innocence of eye has a quality of its own. It means to see as a child sees, with freshness and acknowledgment of the wonder; it also means to see as an adult sees who has gone full circle and once again sees as a child - with freshness and an even deeper sense of wonder.

    Children   Mean   Eye  
  • The pyramid shape is said to hold many secrets and amazing properties. One of them is a sense of wonder.

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