Best Awe And Wonder Quotes

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

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.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

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.

We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we’ve lost respect for movement in our planet.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.

We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe.

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.

Most people are not in the world of awe and wonder. They’re in the world of deadness. Their perceptual fields and bodies are completely self-reflective, and all they see is themselves wherever they go.

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.

Metaphysics is the study of how to shift the self. How to get outside the self-reflection and to just gaze with awe and wonder at the countless universes, the countless celestial radiances of mind, of life, of enlightenment, nirvana, or God, whatever you want to call it.

To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty… this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

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

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms – this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

One cannot help but be in awe when [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.

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

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.